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CHUNGKING, June 25 (Reuter)-A 500-pound demolition borab crashed through the Union Jack-painted roof of the British Con- sulate General and destroyed the building in yesterday afternoon's air raid..

The staffs of the British Diplomatic Mission and the Consulate- General reside in the building, which also houses the offices of the British Embassy, the Air Attache and the Assistant Military Attache. The blast blew in the doors and windows of the Consulate- General,

A bomb demolished an Embassy (any unusual discomfort as the motor car, turning it upside down "bare" just erected at the en- Another wrecked a house, newly trance took away the force of the leased by a diplomat but not yet explosion. occupied

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NEAR AMBASSADOR'S,

OFFICE WINDOW

Six Cuinese outside the French Consulate dug-out were killed,

An inceridiary bomb landed five d Fards from the window of

The Union Jacks, freshly paint-

on the roofs, were plainly

GENERAL

Across the hot plains of the Near East, rimmed by low hills, a native band leads a review of colonial troops.

the visible even from the south bank NO SURRENDER BY FRENCH

office where the British Ambassa- of the Yangtse River.

With ex-

dor. Sir Archibald Kerr, worked ceptionally good visibility yester

FLEET, SAYS DE GAULLE

to

during his recent stay at Chung- day, it is difficult to belleve that

LONDON, June 25 (Reater) "I have reason to think that the Japanese airmen missed sector! king...

the onemy," stated the French Fleet will not surrender The bomb did not explode. It the Union Jacks,

The Embassy and Consulate pre- General de Gaulle in an interview yesterday, made a crater six feet in diameter.

He was convinced that all parts Members of the Consulate-Oen-mises were littered with debris...

Immediately alter the "All of the French Empire would go on eral statt, Messrs. Broadmead. K

the Vice-Foreign | fighting. Warbur-Clear" signal, Bumstead, Crofton "and ton, were safe in a dug-out during Minister, Dr. Hsu Mo, visited the raid, in which 64 Japanese Embassy and viewed the damage.

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BIGGEST RAID SHELTER IN

LONDON

LONDON. June 25

Reuter)—

Within the next few weeks or days Britain will be getting a taste of

If the response developed as they German frightfulness, said Cap- expected in the French Colonial tain Euan Wallace, MP Senior With the removal of the officers Empire, the National Committee Defence Commissioner for London. of the British and French Em would seek to form a French Gov-when he spoke yesterday at the bassies to the south bank, only eroment somewhere on French opening of what will be the big- the Soviet and German Embassies soll.

gest bomb-proof shelter in Britain. remain at Chungking proper

KEEP CALM AND RESOLUTE That government would con-

The Germans, he said. will in- "Consular Street" is a shambles.tinue to be represented in London. It was pitch dark and deserted If Britain were attacked and timidate and terrify the civilian last night...

resisted, the French would organise population which could beat back such attempts by remembering e-resistance somewhere in France,

to do when an air-raid Asked about his reported liability what

court-martial. to

General de! comes

On courage, coolness and resolu- Gaulle said he had received communication of Marshal Petain's ticn depends the defeat of Hitler. decision,

but added: "whatever The new shelter is an old tube- happens it will not change any-taliway working built in -1892 are never used Two large steel-lined thing in my position.”

tunnels 50 or 60 feet below the ground, with concrete floors, the entire shelter will house 11,000 people. There are a large num- ber of entrances.

The city was subjected to tensive attacks Bombs dropped in nearly all sections,

CONSULATES BOMBED

were

CHUNGKING, June 25 (Reuters The British Diplomatie Mission, the British Consulate and French Consulate were hit by bombs. The British and French Consulates were demolished while В dud crashed through the roof of the British Diplomatic Mission. All these buildings were prominently marked, and on the roofs were the British and French flags.

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The Day Of Victory

NOT SO FAR DISTANT

no

Three 500-pound bombs de- LONDON, June 25 (Reuter) molished the main building of the "The day will come, and not so British Consulate which was used far distantly, when air superiority as residences for the staffs of the will be in our command," declar Consulate-General and the Diplo-ed Mr. Harold Nicolson, Parliá- Mission. Al members of mentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, in broadcast the stars are safe.

last night,

matic

China Protests

Second Note To French

INDO - CHINA ROUTE MUST BE OPENED

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"Our resources are far greater than the Germans and our pilots are of a far better quality.

"That will be the day of victory"

ANOTHER HITLER LIE FORECAST "

Mr. Nicolson warned the public that another Hitler He was .com-

hunger blockade lie

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"Having seized Austria, Czecho- Slovakia, Poland. Denmark, Bel- glum. Holland and France, "Hitler intended to rob the people of those countries of their dally.

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SHANGHAI, June 25 (Reuter) - The second protest against the blockade-of-French Indo-China bread; was lodged by the Chinese Na

"He will cut down their food tional Government with French ration to just above starvation Embassy in Chungking on June level so as to feed his armies and 24, states a report from Chungking munition workers and tell them to the Sinwanpao.

their hunger is the fault of the

The first protest was issued British Government. If only Erl- June 21, and in both instances the tain would surrender, he will Chinese Government pointed out say, the war would be over for that the blockade is contrary to

everybody,

the

usually accepted rules of "But we shall prove to Elitler International Law, to the Franco-in the end by the pressure of our Chinese Treaty of 1932 and to the Navy that butter is more im- resolutions of the League of Na-portant than guns." tions, the paper continuES, ?

-ORDERED TO LONDON

ROUTEBE „RE-OPENED. The Chinese Note demanded that the Indo-China route be opened immediately to trade be-

"WASHINGTON-June 23 (Reuter) tween the outside world and The United States Ambassador China. It also strongly protested to Poland: Mr. Anthony. Biddle, against any acceptarice by the who lately had been in Bordeaux, French authorities of Japanese der has been ordered to go to London mands that Japanese supervisors to resume duties with the. Podlah be stationed in French Indo-China ciovernment. to see that the French failed

Mr. William C-Bullitt is remain-

their promises to the Japanese ing as Ambassador to France, Government.

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