793.94/16000: Telegram
The Ambassador in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:25 a.m.]
309. Department’s 233, June 29, 6 p.m. to Tokyo. If further proof were needed of the terroristic object of the recent bombing attacks on Chungking (11 raids from June 9 to 29), it would be supplied by a crudely colored leaflet dropped from bombing planes over Chungking on June 29. This depicts bombs raining down, dwellings in flames, bodies dismembered and all classes of the population fleeing. An inscription states, “Living all day in the midst of air alarms leading an existence not even human.” Another scene depicts a farmer ploughing in a fertile countryside and bears an inscription “Living peacefully earning living with joy.”
Sent to the Department. Repeated to Peiping, Shanghai. Latter repeat to Tokyo.