Apr, 27, Extending effective aid to land fores, a Japanese naval air formation "yesterday morning bombed Chungking positions south-east Chihchow, approximately 50 kilo metres east of Anking, scoring direct hits on military establishments, a communique issued today by the Central China Seas Fleet disclosed, Tt was added in the announcement that the same formation also bombed and inflicted severe damage on enemy establishments at Paoyang ud Puping, near Anking. without receiving any challenge from enemy anti-aircraft batteries. All Japanese planes returned safely to their base, the communique concluded—Domei their way deep into Central China conducting several "raids on Tung-cheng, Lukiang, Liupu and Shih-genkai, all in' the vicinity of Anking, Hengyang, Chengie, Owchil kow and Changsha, in Hunan prov-Ince, also were bombed by Japanese aval aircraft, the communique pointed out, Especial damage was done at Changsha where Japanese lanes severely. bombed. the central Part of the ely and. reduced the outlying sections to. a shambles, The communique, also. gave montion to the work of Japanese patrol boats on the Yangtze which policed wore than 700 nautical miles of the fiver nan attempt. to forestall Ghungidng's much heralded "Spring
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