SERIES OF AIR RAIDS BY JAPANESE

Southland Times, Issue 23953, 20 October 1939, Page 8

SERIES OF AIR RAIDS BY JAPANESE

CHINESE CLAIM SUCCESS IN KIANGSI (Received October 19, 6.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, October 18. It is officially stated that Japanese naval planes carried out a series of successful raids on Chinese positions in Central and South China. One plane was destroyed and two damaged at Hangchwan and Lingchwan. A munition dump exploded and aerodrome runways were destroyed at Keechow. Twenty railcars were destroyed at Hangchwan and Lingchwan. A number of locomotives and goods trains was destroyed and fuel tanks and warehouses burned near Isham. A message from Chungkiang says the Chinese report that troops operating in northern Kiangsi scored important victories over the Japanese forces. The Chinese reached the outskirts of the strategically important town of Fenghsin, after cutting the Japanese communications at Fenghsin and Chingan.