'The spokesman said the Japanese planes had intended merely to bomb a railway bridge 60 miles from the Indo-China border. "He said that Chinese anti-aircraft batteries opened heavy fire on the Japanese squadron near' the bridge and ive Chinese planes attacked the Japanese forma. ion. Under such' conditions, the spokesman said, it was impossible for the Japanese to see the passenger train, although they succeeded—in seeing and hitting the railway bridge. The spokesman said one Chinese plane was shot down during the fight, but that the Japanese planes had escaped intact.
The United States, the spokesman ssid, have no grounds on which protest the bombing of a railway alleged to be responsible for "one-third of the resistance power" of the [Chungking Government.
The spokesman recalled that Japan Jhad frequently warned France that {the railway would be bombed unless the alleged shipment of supplies to Chungking ceased. After the Japan-
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