893.00/3–3149: Telegram
The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 31—6:20 a. m.]
525. ReContel 502, March 28.70 Ta Chung Jih Pao and other papers today carried following item entitled in reference paper “American Imperialism Acknowledges by Silence Crime of Bombing Chungking Was Done by It”.
“According to New China News Agency despatch, after Agency’s publication true facts of bombing of cruiser Chungking (which revolted against Kuomintang reactionary government) by American imperialists, who directly participated in the Kuomintang counter revolutionary civil war, American imperialists were unable deny and consequently did not dare make statement, and therefore issued two ambiguous news items through American imperialist news agency, Associated Press.
Two items, however, did not dare deny that Chungking was bombed by American-flag B–29 type (bomber), which is to say American imperialism acknowledges by silence its crime. The Chinese people will always remember Chungking incident: The foul crime that American imperialism directly participated in counter revolutionary civil war of Kuomintang reactionary clique and bombed Chinese people’s [Page 217] naval warship, damaged coastal defense power of Chinese people and encroached upon sovereign air and sea rights of China.[”]
Sent Department 525; repeated Nanking 330, Canton 36, Shanghai 366, Tsingtao.
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