The Archive · 1939

Italian Marines Attack "Allies"

(Continued from page 7) attack and the result was that several Japanese naval planes dropped 300 bombs in a raid on Nanning in southern Kwangsi on Sunday, destroying a railway yard, stores of railway materials for a new line, military supplies and several godowns, according to a communique issued yesterday by the headquarters of the Japanese China Seas Fleet.

All the planes returned safely to their bases despite heavy fire from machine-gun positions in the city, the statement said. The raid was made by the aircraft which carried out a successful attack on Kunming in eastern Yunnan on Saturday.

On Saturday a naval air unit raided Pinyang in southern Kwangsi demolished barracks and strafed and bombed several military motor cars causing heavy damage, the communique continued.

Ca-operating with Army forces, naval planes on Sunday raided Lingmen and Lingkow in the central part of Hainan Island and demolished Chinese positions in the vicinities of the towns and military establishments inside them. Two big fires started after the bombardments.

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