393.1163Am3/389: Telegram
The Consul General at Canton (Myers) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:40 p.m.]
95. Reference my 89 August 3, 4 p.m. Prefect Apostolic of the Catholic Mission at Kweilin in letter dated August 1, reported bombing was done by 18 Japanese planes on Monday July 31 in eight attacks; that two separate mission compounds were totally demolished except for one building wrecked beyond repair; that both properties were clearly marked with American flags; that members of the mission “witnessed and experienced a most deliberate bombing of the civilian population in one of the mountains outside the city where the people sought shelter from the planes”. Damage is estimated at Hong Kong dollars 50,000.
Appropriate representations have been made to Japanese Consul General.
Repeated to Chungking and Peiping for repetition to Tokyo.