SWISS REPORT
ON THE TOKIO RAID SIXTY OR MORE PLANES EMPLOYED. FEW DETAILS PERMITTED BY CENSORSHIP. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, April 20. The Berne correspondent of the “New York Times” reports that the first apparent confirmation from nonAxis sources of the bombing of Tokio is contained in messages by the Swiss Telegraphic Agency from Tokio. These said that the only news which the Japanese allowed to be telephoned or telegraphed to Berne was that 60 or more planes raided Japan and dropped many bombs, without causing appreciably damage except killing 140 school children in a suburb of Tokio.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1942, Page 3
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