The Archive · 1941

Chinese Chekiang Advance

Kunming, Apr. 27.

ME heavy Japanese bombers raided the southern suburbs of Kunming at noon yesterday.

Another formation of 18 planes attacked points on the Burma highway.

The all-clear sounded here at 4.20 p.m—Reuter.

At a Japanese Army Air Base in French Indo-China, April 26.

'Two large formations of Japanese Army aircraft' yesterday subjected Chinese military' establishments Yunnan province to an intense aerial bombardment.

As one group attacked a Chungking army base near Manplen, in western Yunnan, and Kokiu, tin manufacturing centre in south-eastern Yunnan, another unit severely bombed a Chinese plane assembly plant south of Kunming in the face of violent antiaircraft fire—Domel.

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