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THREE JAPANESE WARSHIPS HIT

Constantly Harassed By High Speed Bombers

NEW TYPE OF MACHINE MENACES SHIPS

DARING POWER DIVES CLOSE TO OBJECTIVES

Shanghai, 1.30 p.m., To-day.

Three Japanese warships were hit and dam- aged, though not seriously, in the course of last night's daring raids on the Japanese naval concen- tration at Woosung and those lying in the Whang- poo opposite the Yangtsepoo front.

The raids have revealed a new menace to the Japanese Navy as the machines used were types not previously used in bombing raids, exceptionally fast and possessed of remarkable climbing ability.

TWO THOUSAND CASUALTIES

SEAPLANES

BOMBING

SWATOW

A reliablon, To-day.

foreign source

in Swatow has telegraphed the news that two Japanese seaplanes were

bombing

IN N. CHINA BATTLE Swatow at 1 o'clock_this

Tientsin, 245 pm.

Nearly two thousa

are reported

-day.

afternoon.

No details are yet avail- able Renter

severe engagement on the Tientsin Captam Muir In

Pukow Railway

late last night

nearly twelve

The Japanese claim result of a concem squadrons of bom heavy artillery,

for

Hospital

Captain A. W. Miur, skipper of the (ss. Ting On, on the Hong Kong- three Canton-run, was operated on for appendicitas this morning at the War Memorial Hospital air and artillery bombardment.

nes and troops, who

have been held on the left bank of the Machang River managed to

cross to the right bank of the river this morning.

Large reinforcéments are being rushed to the zone where the Chin- ese have dropped back to

new took part in the action and they line of defence and are holding their

Thirty thousand Chinese

Attacks, launched on four or five occasions dur-retreated only when their lines of ground stubbornly Our Own Cor- ing the night, kept the Japanese warships on the communication had been blasted by respondent.

move, as the pilots swooped down upon them in pow- er dives, loosed off their bombs, and soared rapidly out of reach, swinging round and swooping again.

Japanese reports on the raids deny that any direct hit was made on their ships, but state that the bombs several times fell within two or three yards and drenched the ships as the explosions sent volumes of water high into the air

WHANGPOO HIT REGISTERED.

It is known, however, that one ship in the Whangpoo was hit and a number of casualties caus- ed, and Chinese reports state that explosions wer distinctly seen on two cruisers lying off Woosung

The sky rattled with anti-aircraft fire but no hits were registered, the planes climbing out range in a matter of seconds.

Only two bombers took part in any one but it is not know ether

attack, or

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