The Archive · 1937

With Bombs

Bombs and propaganda leaflets were strewn over the Chinese city and the vicinity yesterday morning. by Japanese aeroplanes which bombed a number of points in the course of the morning's operations, One of the thousands of leaflets showered from the sky read as follows: "Brethren, The Nanking Government is charging patriots with being traitors and killing them in order to carry out its false policy. Where is that heading to? Do you know that? The policy of tolerating Communism is leading China to the way of chaos and extermination."

Bombs emphasized the forcefulness of the Japanese literary appeal.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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