Japanese Diplomat Speaks at 1912 Club in London London, Feb. 8.
"Can you justify the bombing of Shanghai and other towns in China?
This was the question put to-day to Baron Shu Tomii, the Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy, when he addressed the 1912 Club in London, Baron Tomii replied that the bombing incidents in China were "much exaggerated." Two hundred casualties in one town, he said, were magnified to 3,000.
In 1923, Baron Tomii continued, Japan proposed to abolish bombing, but the proposal was defeated largely due to Great Britain and France.
The Japanese Army, he stated, sacrificed strategic advantage to warn towns, before bombing them, of what their military objectives there would be. These objectives had always been military points, he added and the Japanese had done their utmost to avoid bombing civilian populations Reuter.
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