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Show 'Lidice in China After Tokyo Raid Japs Slaughter Every One In Coastal Areas. SAN FRANCISCO. Japanese troops, emulating the Germans in the massacre of Lidice, slaughtered every resident to "the last harmless child" in Chinese coastal areas where many of Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle's fliers landed after I bombing Tokyo, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau said here. Morgenthau was notified of the slaughter by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of China in the following cablegram: "After they had been caught unawares un-awares by the falling of American bombs on Tokyo, Japanese troops attacked the coastal areas of China where many of the American fliers had landed. "These troops slaughtered every man, woman and child in those areas let me repeat these Japanese Japa-nese troops slaughtered every man, woman and child in those areas, reproducing on a wholesale scale the horrors which the world had seen at Lidice, but about which people have been uninformed in these instances. "The dastardly execution of these American fliers, who were taken prisoners of war, has made it clear to all Americans that we face an enemy who knows no codes of law or decency. The only language which such an enemy understands is that of the weapons of war, and in the bond campaign which you are pushing push-ing for the war effort our people wish you all success." Generalissimo Chiang made no mention of the number of Chinese slain by the Japanese, except indirectly in-directly in likening it to a reproduction repro-duction "on a wholesale scale" of the Lidice massacre. |