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Despite protests of the United States and Britain against aerial bombings of civilians the Japanese sent fleets of planes over a score or more of cities in Eastern China. Canton reported more than 2,000 dead or wounded in two days. Nanking was spared, but planes visited forts up the Yangtze. Ambassador Johnson remained at the capital and had no intention of leaving. [Page 1.]
many eastern Chinese cities bombed; thousands of civilian casualties reptd in Canton; Kiangyin forts, Yenchow and Tsining bombed; Nanking not attacked; Amb Johnson to remain at Embassy; on Shanghai front, Pootung bombed; reaction, of official Japanese circles, Shanghai, to situation; bombing of Jesuit Mission, Sienhsien, Hopei Province, reptd
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