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The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Nanking to the Chinese Legation14

[Nanking,] October 9, 1931.

Twelve Japanese aeroplanes yesterday attacked Chinchow on the Peking-Mukden line by dropping more than fifty bombs and firing machine guns, killing one Russian professor, one soldier and fourteen civilians, and wounding more than twenty people. There was considerable damage to the railway station, including the destruction of three locomotives, other damages being under investigation.

The League circle has already been informed of this serious occurrence and is considerably alarmed.

The Department’s attention should be drawn to the fact that the provincial capital has been removed to Chinchow since the occupation of Shenyang (Mukden).

  1. Copy of telegram handed by the Chinese Chargé to the Chief of the Division of Par Eastern Affairs on October 9, 1931.↩