793.94/6249: Telegram
The Minister in China (Johnson) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 4—10:45 a.m.]
403. Legation’s 342, April 19, 4 p.m.23 As a result of action of this Legation and of American Consul General at Tientsin in calling attention of Japanese authorities to serious damage inflicted on American Methodist mission property at Miyun by Japanese airplane bombing on April 18th the Japanese Chargé d’Affaires on April 29th personally informed me that Kwantung Army would reimburse mission for losses suffered. This was confirmed on May 1st in letter to Lockhart from Japanese Consul General at Tientsin who asked that this mission submit a detailed list of its losses. See Tientsin’s despatch No. 368 of April 22nd23 et seq. for details.
No Americans resident at Miyun and so far as known Chinese staff of mission was not injured by bombing.