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The bombing campaigns on Nanking and on Guangzhou evoked protests from the Western powers culminating in a resolution by the Far Eastern Advisory Committee of the League of Nations.

An example of the many expressions of indignation came from Lord Cranborne, the British Under-Secretary of State For Foreign Affairs: Words cannot express the feelings of profound horror with which the news of these raids had been received by the whole civilized world.

They are often directed against places far from the actual area of hostilities.

The military objective, where it exists, seems to take a completely second place.

The main object seems to be to inspire terror by the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians ...