793.94/15948: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
Chungking, June 15, 1940—2
p.m.
[Received June 15—2 p.m.]
[Received June 15—2 p.m.]
264. Reference Embassy’s 257, June 12, 9 p.m., Japanese bombing of Chungking on June 12. The Embassy has been informed by letter of the following American property losses and damages in consequence of the raid in question:
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- Methodist Episcopal Mission, (a) Two missionary residences sustained damages estimated at 200 dollars United States currency; (b) Methodist Union Hospital sustained damages estimated at 500 dollars United States currency; (c) Church A [at?] Daijiahang and pastorate sustained damages estimated at 100 dollars United States currency; (d) Lewis Memorial Institutional Church sustained damages estimated at 100 dollars United States currency; and (e) Su Teh Girls School sustained damages estimated at 100 dollars United States currency.
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- The Chungking Ice Company, Inc., (a) repairs of roofs of godown factory and office building estimated at 1, 141 dollars and 80 cents Chinese currency; (b) broken equipment, et cetera, losses sustained estimated at 1,200 dollars Chinese currency.
A church building and a residence owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Mission were demolished in the course of the raid but an estimate of losses and damages has not been received.
Repeated to Peiping, Hankow, Shanghai. Shanghai please repeat to Tokyo. Copy by air mail to Yunnanfu.
Johnson