Extensive damage was caused in Paoting, town in the southern part of Hainan Island, used by Chinese troop remnants as a base, when Japanese naval aircraft attacked it on Saturday, the communique went on. One fire caused by the bombing, it added.
ai, along the northern edge of Liuchow Promontory, in southwestern Kwangtung province, was also bombed on Saturday, according to the announcement, Japanese naval landing parties operating on Hainan Island emerged unscathed in an engagement against Chinese troop remnants on Wednes. day when the Chinese retreated lea ing 188 dead, the communique asserted. The combat occurred in the Lingshui area in the southern part of the island.
A "great deal" of damage was done to anti-aircraft batteries and military establishments by a Japanese naval air squadron which raided Chungking on Friday night, according to a communique issued by the Press Section of the Japanese China Sea Fleet on Saturday night.
A crack unit of naval bombers, commanded by Lieut-Commander Toshiye Irisa, launched the third bombardment of the Nationalist war capital at dusk Friday night. Intense anti-aircraft fire was encountered, the statement said. Six Chinese combat machines took off to attack the raiders but were driven off. One of them was shot down, the statement claimed.
Locations of anti-aircraft batteries were indicated by their fire as follows: southern part of the city on m bank of the river, on e bank of the—Chialing River; northern, north-eastern and western sections of the city; right bank of the Yangtze. and vicinity of the Kwanyang aerodrome.
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