The Archive · 1941

Air Raids Reviewed At a Japanese Naval Air Base in

Central China, June 7, Formations of Japanese naval air= craft subjected 'Chungking, Chiang Kal-shek's wartime capital, to three devastating raids during the period between June 1-and June 6, causing heavy damage to, munition stores, industrial plants and government Dulldings, the press section of the Japanese' Central China Seas Fleet announced in its weekly war review.

Fierce raids were carried out against Chungkiig on June 1, June 2eand June 5, with the last raid continuing until dawn, the communlne revealed Other bombing raids. according to the communique, were carried out against sectors around Anking, Anhwei provinces; Tuchang, Kiangsi prov-nee, and numerous points round Lake Poyang as well as the Yangtze River basin—Domel,

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