Shanghai, June 9.
\AILURE of foreign news agencies and newspaper correspondents in Canton to state the extent of damage caused to Chinese milita establishments bombed by Japanese aircraft and giving only "highly coloured accounts of civilian losses" was giving the world a "lop-sided picture" of the situation, a Japanese naval spokesman said at a press conference here yesterday morning.
"From the accounts published in Shanghai it would seem as if none of the Japanese bombs ever hit their targets, but caused only widespread havoc among civilian Chinese," he reports from an American news service and from the correspondent of a British-owned English-Tanguage newspaper in Hongkong. have confirmed our claims that, the military objectives against which' the bombs were directed were hit, 'For instance, a United Press dispatch of May 30 states that the Pro Vinelal Garrison Headquarters Canton' were hit in all the Japanese air raids. of that week-end, While the "South China Morning Post" correspondent revealed that one municipal middle school that was Tevelled by Japanese bombs had been used to quarter Chinese soldiers,' singular* Omission The spokesman recalled that Rear~ Admiral Naokuni Nomura, chief of the Naval Special Service Section in Shanghai, had noted that it was "singular" that none of the dispatches published in Shanghai told of losses to Chinese military institutions, "We assume that the same situation prevails in other parts of the world," he remarked.
Countering a suggestion by a for-ign correspondent attending the conference that Chinese censorship was responsible for the deletion of such passages, the spokesman pointed out that detailed descriptions of damage to strategic points in Canton were being published in Hongkong, which was in telephone communication with Canton, It is because only the civilian casualty angle is being emphasized that the world is getting a lop-sided plelure of what Is taking place," he declared, The spokesman conceded, however, that civilian casualties were "consi derable", contending that such a toll was "unavoidable", French Protests Paris, June 7.
The French Government have instructed their Ambassador in Tokyo, IM, Charles Arsene Henry, to protest {o the Japanese Government on two matters, M. Henry is making his first protest against the bombing of Chinese open cities by Japanese aviators.
His second is against the Japanese aerial bombardment of the French, Paul Doumer Hospital in Canton, Havas.
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