The Archive · 1941

Tunnel Tragedy in Chungking

Chungking, June 25.

CCOMPANIED by a representative of the Air Defence headquarters, a Reuter representative this morning walked the complete length of Chungking's underground tunnel where the capital's great air-raid tragedy occurred on June 7, resulting in hundreds of people dying of suffocation.

special committee appointed by General Chiang Kai-shek is at present investigating the circumstances of the tragedy in order to improve public air-raid shelters and punish those officials with another complicating problem Fequiring a decision which lately Japan has found it difeult to make.

Te Russia Is able to offer cossid able resistance to Germany, Amer-tean ald through Vladivostok might force Berlin fo turn on the heat in Tokyo, which would present Japan with ihe alternative either of going Into the war—which would bring her into a conflict with Russla.certainly, and Britain and the United Star Drobably—or refusing to assist her Axis allies.

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