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In "North-China Daily News" of December 6, 1938, page 3, column 6, the following dispatch from Tokyo appears:
Amicable settlement of an incident involving the death of a Chinese inmate Of an American hospital at Sutsien on December 5 {should be November 5) during an aerial attack on the walled town situation on the Grand Canal in northern Kiangsu province was reported here today.
'American' authorities who had protested against the attack were reported to have admitted that the Japane-e action was justified when it was-proved that the Japanese army planes were forced to fire on the building when Chinese troops on the hospital premises started shooting. The Japanese, however, ceased firing upon recognizing the American flag flying over the hospital.
This is the fifth of the series of Japanese-American disputes to be settled amicably, it was said—Domei.
Further reference to this incident is found in "North-China Daily News" of December 10, 1938, page 7, column 5, including the following sentence: "No mention is made in the mission's version of Japanese allegations that troops were on the roof of the hospital."
No Troops in Hospital The truth is that no Chinese soldiers were on the hospital roof, at that time, or at any other time since the hospital was built in 1910. No Chinese soldiers were in the hospital compound, even as patients. Ever since the present hostilities began—all wounded Chinese soldiers applying for admission to the mission hospital have been required to live in separate buildings, outside the hospital compound, for the purpose of avoiding just such allegations as the above mentioned. This rule wa
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