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Japanese In China (Received October 5, 8.20 p.m.) CHUNGKING, October 4. Japanese air strength along the coast in the Hong Kong, Canton and Haiphong areas has recently increased 300 per cent., said the Commander of the American Air Forces in China, Brigadier-Gen-eral Chennault, interviewed by the Associated Press of America. He added: “I think we have hit them so heavily that they have had to bring in more planes to defend themselves.” General Chennault expressed ths opinion that Japanese planes had improved in performance and that the pilots were showing evidence of more careful training. Reviewing operations in the last half of September, he said that the Japanese had lost 16 bombers and four fighters, and probably seven more bombers and two fighters. The Americans had lost one bomber.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 9, 6 October 1943, Page 5
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