The Archive · 1938

Japanese Navy Satisfied

Tokyo, The Japanese neavy with the progress of bombing of Canton Rear-Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, spokesman for the Admiralty, told foreign press correspondents this The Japanese bombing of Canton, the "New York Times" said in an editorial today, is "enough to arouse all civilized Governmenis to get together in the name of humanity and for the sake of their own cities and try to prevent i: imitate bombing in the future."

The The "New York Herald-Tribune" termed the raids an, "atrocious performance" and said it the present systematic bombing "f Canton is anything more than a display of vicious temper it must be an effort to terrorize the Cantonese into the suspension of arms shipments. This would imply the confession that the Japanese air force had fallen down on its job of interrupting railroad service and is therefore bent upon getting results by terrorism which it des pains of getting by marksmanship."—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account