JAPANESE APOLOGY
THE BOMBING OF SHUMCHUM A REGRETTABLE ERROR. BOMB STRIKES TRAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. TOKIO, February 22. Japan has apologised to Britain for a “regrettable error” in the bombing of Shumchum. A War Office communique states that a plane dropped a bomb in mistake on British territory and struck the engine of a train. It was reported yesterday that in the bombing by Japanese planes of British territory near Hong Kong, eight children and three adults were killed. Another Hong Kong report stated that 98 were killed and 100 wounded in the raid. TOTAL DEATHS. IN CHINESE AND BRITISH TERRITORY. (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) ' HONG KONG, February 22. Three more victims of the Japanese air raid have died, bringing the total dead in British territory to fourteen. Eighty died and many were wounded
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1939, Page 7
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