Japanese naval aircraft on Thursday resumed their attacks on the Yunnan Railway, major communication route of Chungking-controlled China and the outside world, a Japanese naval spokesman announced yesterday.
In spite of a strong head wind and low lying clouds, a Japanese naval air detachment at dusk on Thursday successfully bombed the railway between Mengtze and the French-Indo China border, he said. Three Chinese fighters of the 1-16 Soviet-built type were repulsed by the Japanese raiders, which also braved fire irom newly-established Chinese anti-aircraft batteries to bomb a bridge un-dargoing repairs after having been damaged in an earlier Japanese attack, he added. Japanese craft had returned safely, according to the spokesman.
In the snow-covered plains of north-west China, as well as in the rugged mountains of south-eastern Kwangsi province, Japanese army forces were engaged in major operations yesterday, as Chinese guerillas in Shanghai continued to make mass surrenders, a Japanese military spokesman in Shanghai announced lost night.
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