The Archive · 1939

Bombing of Chunking

Protested Chungking, Jan, 21, A telegras retesting against the jsruthiess" bombing" of elviliang in Chungking was dispatched today to the League of Nations by a Committee representing Chungking missions. The telegram stated:—in the name of defenceless, suffer ing humanity, the Chungking mission farier protest against the. ruthless bombing of the civilian population as Jof January 15, when more than 100 civilians were killed in a rad serving no military purpose.

fe petition the League of Nations to act with a view to mobilizing, and. Implementing world opinion to stop such savage. brutalities.

'The telegram is signed by ropresentatives of the following soctotios:—'The China Inland Mission, the Friends' Service Council, the Methoidist Episcopal Mission, the National [Bible Society of Scotland, the China [Bible House, the Seventh Day Adventist Mission, and" the United [Church of Canada Mission.—nouter, Wounded Aide of

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