The Archive · 1940

Chungking British Consulate. Razed

Huge Bomb Goes Through Union Jack on Roof; All Staff Members Safe

Chungking, June 25.

A %00-pound demolition bomb crashed through the Union Jack painted on the roof of the British Consulate-General, destroying {he building in yesterday afternoon's air raid. Staffs of the British diplomatic mission and Consulate-General reside in the building which also houses offices of the British Embassy, the Air Attache and Assistant Military Attache.

The blast blew in doors and windows of the Consulate-Geheral. A bomb demolished the Embassy motor car, turning it upside down. Another wrecked a house newly leased by the diplomatic mission but mot yet occupied.

An incendiary bomb landed five yards from a window of the office where the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, worked during his recent stay in Chungking. The bomb did not explode, it made a crater six feet in diameter.

Non-Involvement Policy Such demands, were made here night at a joint meet-Ytkb for d Objeetive of the Sacred Cam-in China." two organizations unanimously d a resolution calling for the War and urging Japan to drive Britain and France out of the Orient.

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