Commemorated "Debt Will Be Repaid", Says Chinese Press Chungking, May 3.
All Chinese newspapers this morning carried articles on the occasion óf the anniversary of last year' tragic bombings of Chungking by Japanese warplanes.
After recalling the heavy civilian casualties and property losses in the capital, as a result of the raids, as well as the Tsinan incident on May 3, 1928, the papers declared: barbarism must never be tolerated. On the final day of reckoning, all these debts in blood must be repaid in full."
Japanese aircraft heavily bombed Chungking on May 3 and 4, setting fire to the principal business sections of the city. The raids resulted in nearly 20000 casualties.
On May 3; 1928, Chinese troops clashed with the Japanese at Tsinan, capital of Shantung, when Kuom! tang troops were advancing northward towards Peiping and Tientsin, 8 along the Tientsin-Pukow railway and fom Nanking—Reuter.
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