CHINESE LEADER SHOCKED
BOMBING OF SETTLEMENT. RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SHANGHAI, Aug. 15. The possibility that the bombing of the International Settlement was due to causes beyond Hie Chinese pilots' control is set forth in Madame Cltiang Kai-shek's reply to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt s appeal to her to use her inlluenee in slopping bombing operations at least until the. safety of foreigners and refugees was assured. The Chinese leader's wife said she deplored the "accidental” dropping of bombs from two damaged aeroplanes. Marshal Chi.mg Kai-shek was shocked greved because ho had expressly ordered that no should be dropped south of the. Soochnw Greek. Madame Cltiang Kai-shek added that ollle,-Is had reported that Japanese ait I i aircraft gunnery had wounded the Chinese pilots and damaged their bomb racks, thus loosening I lie bombs. It was inereihlde. she said, that China would deliberately bomb the Settlement.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20274, 17 August 1937, Page 7
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150CHINESE LEADER SHOCKED Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20274, 17 August 1937, Page 7
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