A formation of Japanese navat planes in three. groups penetrating Goop into Hunan province. severely, bombed Shaoyang and Lengstult on the Hunan-Kwangsi railway, yes terday. causing the destruction of the oilway station and warehouses, and large quantities of military supplies, the press section of the Japanese fect In the Central China Seas announced Another force flying into Szechuen raided enemy positions in the sixth war zone between Tchang and Feng: Hieh, while a third unit attacked the Wushan-Patung sector astride the Hupeh-Szechuen frontier.
Reviewing the operations during the past week.-the press section said that' major events Included two devastating air raids on Chungking in Which munition factories, warehouses and. communication centres were Fane, "Another sir operation was carried out in. conjunction with [croutd forees in the neighbourhood of Shikmenkat on. the AnhwelKlangst border, Japanese naval planes also tanged up a 600-mile stretch of the Yangtze river, sinking Chinese gun-[boats and sampans bearing munitions
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