The Archive · 1940

Chinese Air Force Attacks

NEWS FROM THE INTERIOR

Heavy Damage Claimed to Have Been Done at Yunchen and in Hunan Province; Suiyuan Success Chungking, Apr. 4.

Chinese Air Force resumed bombing operations yesterday afternoon, when a squadron of aircraft bombed a Japanese aerodrome at Yunchen, in south Shansi on the Tatung-Puchow, railway, and another squadron raided Yochow in northern Hunan, on the east shore of Tungting Lake, it is officially announced here.

The Japanese Air Force, it is stated, has been using Yunchen as a base for bombing operations against towns in the north-west, like Lanchow, Sian, Loyang and other places.

'A squadron of Chinese bombers yesterday afternoon appeared over the aerodrome at Yunchen at 1.50 p.m, and heavily bombed: the airfield, Thirty Japanese planes are said to have been destroyed.

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