"Only a few d: igo," said the Japanese Commander-in-Chief, took one of our naval vessels from the French Bund, where we have a naval buoy, in order to respect the foreign warships which are in the river there. I wish you would for me_tHat the Japanese planes have beeit~ specifically instructed since the Nanking Road tragedy (of August 14) not to fly over the International Settlement while carrying bombs. We have not, at any time, dropped incendiary bombs, nor is the story about our having dropped gas bombs at Nanking true; nor is it possible, as has been stated, for our anti-aircraft guns to shoot away the under-carriage of a bombing plane."
Admiral Hasega indicated a Point where, the Chinese had big trench-mortars some of which could fire as far as 145 miles.
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