Japanese navy bombers early' this morning carried out the 28th air raid on Chungking this year, It wes announced at noon today by the Japan-se Central China Seas Fleet Com-
Three Japanese navy air squadrons set off for the wartime capital of the Chiang Kai-shek regime at about 1.30 Gelock in the morning, at 2.20 o'clock ud at 5 o'clock when each squadron jed large loads of bombs.
weather, however, made it inadvisable for the first two squa-rons (0 go. as far ax Chungsing and they deflected their course to Wanhsien in eastern Szechuen, The third squadron, however. could get through and reach Chungking where it did effective work.
Military establishments were se. on fire by the Japanese navy raiders: both at Wanhsien. and Chung: ing, the wartime capital suffering most heavily, All the Japanese machines turned unscathed to their base.
"In Chungking today." the com= munique remarked significantly in closing, "the Japanese Miers could not see any enemy fighters, while the antinaireraft fire and—searchlight equipment was not ax effec tive as before."—Domel, Bombs on Liuchow a Japanese Army Air Base, Aux 18.
Two Japanese army air units yesterday morning made a surprise attack on Liuehov, strategic point in north= fern Kwangsi, where the bombing raid set afire a great number of petrol Gumps" in the neighbourhood, oil drums being piled in. great quantities at several places which became ob-Jeetives of accurate bombing.
The Japanese army. tiers also bombed a group of Chungking trucks which were destroyed.
After this raid, the Japanese raid ers winged their way to a sector north Pingyang in southern Kwangsi and attacked a number of Chungking troops, some hundreds of whom were
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