Chungking, July 10.
British missionary property in various towns in Shansi has been set on fire and destroyed as part of the Japanese sponsored anti-British cam~ paign in North China, according to Chinese reports' received here today from Shansi.
Among the towns where these outrages were per petrated, the reports add, were Hungtung and Chaochen, both Many Chinese Christians are alleged to have been arrested on the Tungpu Railway.
Many Chinese Christians are alleged to have been arrested and executed, but confirmation of this charge from independent sources is not available—
Reuter, British warship. No reply had been received as yet, the spokesman added, }On the previous day, an apology had been dispatched to Capt. J. J. Brown, [Senior United States Naval ameer, to which a reply has been received. [which the ameer appreciated the [Japanese apology.
In referring to the bombing incid-Jent, the spokesman said that when Jo squadron of Japanese planes came Jover Chungking on July 6, the antly aircraft fire was so strong that the Jsquadron leader, ordered his planes fy away without dropping any bombs. Later in the day, the planes returned, however, and one of the missiles dropped within 150 yards of the two warships, when H.MS. Fal-
Admiral 'a meeting for the following day and made enquiries with the various squadrons asking for the reason of the bomb being dropped so near foreign warships.
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