793.94/10657: Telegram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Gauss) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 15—2:50 a.m.]
854. It is estimated this evening that 35 Chinese were killed and 40 or more injured in the foreign protected area today by Japanese bombs and Chinese and Japanese anti-aircraft and machine gun fire and shells. Chinese planes again raided over Shanghai this evening sheltering over the foreign areas in approaching and leaving. German Consul General tells me three German residences were damaged, one badly in Western District near defense lines today by Japanese Army bombs directed against a Chinese train which shelters on the Shanghai–Hangchow Railway line just in front of the British defense lines in the Western District.
Repeated to the Department. Repeated to Nanking and Peiping.