Tokyo, May 6.
It is learned on reliable' authority, that Sir Robert Craigie, me British Ambassador in Tokyo, protested verbally to the Japanese "Government yesterday regarding the damaging of the British Consulate-General Chungking during Thursday's raid the Chinese capital, Sir Robert ig understood to have pointed out the "gravity of the Japanese action," declaring that the excuse that anti-aircraft guns were in the neighbourhood of the Consulate was "entirely unacceptable."
The British Ambassador is also understood to have requested that the Japanese Government take appro Briate action to remedy the matter.
"The Japanese Air Force," declared the Admiralty spokesman In a statement today. "will never relax their attacks on Chungking, the seat of the Kuomintang Government, and other military points, which, on the contrary, will be kept up with me creasing force until the anti-Japanese Kuomintang Government has been crushed."-—Reuter.
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