Since the planes were not sighted nor heard over Yamaguchi, it was believed that Japan proper was safe, No reports of damage anywhere were available, apparently because the planes failed to drop any bombs, Japanese reports said.
The planes were reported to have disappeared at 1 am, today when the general warning to take air raid precautions everywhere was lifted, Earlier last night the Seoul Defence Headquarters issued a general warning for black-outs, presumably fearing that Korea would be raided.
Chinese planes for the first time flew over Jqpan in the early hours of May 20 when they hovered over Kyushu and dropped millions of leaflets addressed to the farmers and labourers. The leaflets suggested that ihe working classes arise against the Japanese militarists, No anti-aircraft batteries were fired against the Chinese planes on the occasion of the first raid, although several cities shut off all lights for bad arisen about the position of these men. The German military advisers did not constitute a military mission, each man having been engaged separately as a private individual. The German Government had had no hand in the formulation of the contract by which they were engaged nor had made any stipulation about the conditions thereof. Moreover, the German military advisers' haa taken no active part in the present military engagements but functioned merely as instructing officers. They were, therefore, not absolutely indispensable although it was true that they had performed their work ex: cellent ly.
Turning to the. question of deliveries of war material to China, Dr. Kung declared that a possible loss of individual deliveries of. ammunition would not hurt China. very badly, as the country had sufficient means to buy all material she wanted in the open market.
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