London, May 2.
"Mr. Robert Morgan, National Conservative member for the Stourbridge Livision of Worcestershire, asked the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in the House of Commons today whether former British residents at Kiukiang had yet been allowed to return to their property. If not, he adele "what steps is the Prime Minister taking in the matter?"
Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replied in the negative. He said that every opportunity was being taken to press the matter with the Japanese authorities.—Reuter.
Chungking, May 3.
MHE business section of Foochow, the capital of Fukien, has been reduced to ruins, while casualties totalled over 1,000 as a result of Japanese aerial bombings on April 21 and 25, and May 1 and 2, according to a Chinese dispatch from Foochow.
Fifteen Japanese planes, it added, twice bombed Foochow on May 1. Seven of these machines are said to have dropped 20 bombs in the morning, while eight others, operating in heavy rains, dropped 30 incendiary missiles in the afternoon on the most densely-populated district—Reuter.
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