AIR BATTLE
CHINESE CLAIM SUCCESS LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. BULK OF RAIDING FORCE REPELLED. (Recd This Day, 9.55 a.m.) HANKOW, August 3. The Chinese claim that eleven Japanese fighters and one bomber were shot down in an air battle south of Wuchang. Six Chinese planes failed to return to their base and two made forced landings. It is stated that only 23 Japanese planes out of 70 eluded the defenders and bombed the city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 7
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74AIR BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1938, Page 7
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