Washington, Feb. 4.
The United States Ambassador to Japan, Mr, Joseph C. Grew, last week sharply Informed the Japanese Government that the United States concerned over Japanese bombings of the Yunnan Railway, it was reliably earned here last night.
Mr. Grew's notice {0 Japan was considered short of a formal protest, but it took added signifleanee because of the already strained relations between Japan and the United States, Tt was said that Mr. Grow told the Japanese that the "United States considers the railway artery for the normal transporta-ton of goods destined for the United States and an artery of travel for American citizens and diplomats. The same notice was browuht to the tention of the French Foreign Oniee, it was learned—United Press.
'Thursday, which resulted in many ties, including five Europeans, the "Central Daily' News." oficial organ of the Chinese Government, in an editorial today denounced the raid a "deliberate affront to Third Powers in. China."
Atter reiterating that "the safety of the lives and interests of Th Power nationals in China can have no protection so long as Japanese militarists run amuck," the newspaper asserted: "Such' deliberate at tacks should not be further tolerated.
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