Chungking, June 19.
A telegram appealing for an American embargo on oil and petrol shipments to Japan was sent to President Roosevelt today by Mr. W. S. Mc-Curdy, a veteran Methodist missionary, and Mr. George Fitch, high YMCA. official.
"Chungking Americans" the tele-Sotinued sale of petrol and oil to gram said, "cannot understand the
Japan. How can ye escape responsibility for recent bombings when thousands perished here? The American Methodist Hospital was destroyed, the offices of the American Military and Naval Attacher damaged, the U.SS. Tutuila threatened, Part of the naw idol village erected American Red Cross funds and for the destruction of countless other lives and cities, all acMiHid Wy d Mb at auk petrol acid oil."
"China appreciates American sympathy and help but it is past the time we ceased being a partner of Japan in her crimes and against China," the telegram concluded.—Havas Telemondial.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.