SHUMCHUN BOMBING
"REGRETTABLE ERROR"
APOLOGY MADE TO BRITAIN 1
TOKIO, February 22. Japan has apologised to Britain for a "regrettable error" in the bombing of Shumchun. A War' Office communique states that a plane dropped a bomb in mistake on British territory and that the missile struck the engine of a train.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 13
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52SHUMCHUN BOMBING Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 13
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