sone Japan's continued participation in the World's Fair despite the international situation, is due to her-desire to strengthen ' American-Japanese friendship, the Japanese Consul General, Mr. Kaname Wakasugi, said at the opening of the Japanese Pavilfon on the Fair grounds, "There has not been a moment of greater importance in history than today," he said, "which calls for constructive endeavours on the part of Members of the Consulate-General staff, Messrs. Broadmead K. Bum-stead, Crofton and Warburton, were afe in a dug-out during the raid, in which 54 Japanese planes participated.
Mr. Broadmead said they rushed into the dug-out when they saw the Japanese bombers coming from the south bank of the river, heading straight for the Embassy. Though bombs landed near the dug-out the occupants did not feel any unusual discomfort as a "baffle" just erected at the entrance took away the force of the explosion. Six Chinese outside the French Consulate dug-out were killed,
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