Chungking, June 25.
$00-pound demolition bomb crashed through the Union Jacko painted on the root of the British Consulate-General, destroying the building in yesterday afternoon's air raid, Staffs of the Beitish diplomatic mission and Consulate-General reside inthe building which also houses offices of the British Embassy, the Air Atache and Assistant Military Attache, The blast blew In doors and windows of the Consulate-General. A bomb demolished the Embassy motor eat, turning it upside down, "Another wrecked a house newly leased by the Aiplomatie mission" but not yet occupied.
An incendiary bomb landed five yards from a window of the off where the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, worked during his recent stay in Chungking. The bomb did not explode, it made a crater shx feet in diameter.
Members of the Consulate-Generat staff, Messrs. Broadmend K. Bum-stead, Crofton and Warburton, were safe ina dug-out during the raid, in which §4 Japanese planes parti-
Mr. Broadmend said they rushed into the duy-out when they saw the Japanese bombers coming from the Fouth bank of the river, heading straight for the Embassy. Though bombs landed near the dug-out the cupants did not feel any unusual discomfort as a "homme" 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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