Apr. 16.
Successive air raids were conducted by Japanese naval aircraft against Chinese air and communication bases in Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces today.
This wave of aerial attacks opened with a moonlight raid upon the Lishui aerodrome in central Chekiang at 1.30 o'clock in the morning After the initial onslaught, two other squadrons swooped upon this advanced Chinese air base in central China causing extensive damage.
Yushan, an important station on the Chekiang Kiangsi Railway situated in south-eastern Kiangsi, as well as Kwangsin, south-west of Yushan, were also attacked, the raiders succeeding in destroying the Yushan station, locomotive sheds, coal depots and adjoining munition stores, according io the pilots who took part in the operations.
Despite heavy anti-aircraft fre, another Japanese naval flying unit succeeded in bombing the Kian aerodrome and adjoining munition depots.
All Japanese aircraft taking part in these operations returned to their bases safely.—Domei.
M. Koht replied that the Norwegian Government alone was capable of replying to the demands, but Dr. Braueuer said an urgent decision was necessarly because German action had advanced so far that it could not be altered, the official Norwegian statement asserted.
To this, M. Koht informed the German Minister that the Government's decision was that it was unable to accept the demands, the statement added, Germany's answer was the attack carried out the next morning, Members of the Royal Family, the Government and Parliament were obliged to flee Oslo to avoid capture, the statement said.
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