Office of the Historian

793.94/16781: Telegram

The Ambassador in China (Gauss) to the Secretary of State

Chungking, August 11, 1941—6 p.m.
[Received August 11—2:51 p.m.]

338. Your 182, August 6, 6 p.m.55 Chungking has been subjected to unusually heavy and prolonged air raids during the past 4 days. Outlying districts and the city area have been repeatedly bombed but there has been no bombing of the city area immediately opposite the Chancery and the gunboat.

Gauss
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