793.94/2010: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 8—6:45 a.m.]
729. Following information just received from [apparent omission] of Young Marshal’s office:
“Between 1 and 2:15 this p.m., 12 Japanese airplanes flew over Chinchow, new seat of the Chinese Provincial Government in Manchuria and dropped 36 bombs, chiefly directly [directed?] at the University buildings and house [of the?] Provincial Government. Buildings were damaged but casualties so far unknown. A bomb was dropped on service car number 141, killing two Chinese cleaners, and [Page 144] one was dropped on the locomotive sheds. Telegraph lines between Chinchow and Shanhaikwan interrupted.”