Wednesday, 30 July

An air raid from 7.30 a.m. until 3.30 p.m. Several bombs dropped around our house and we noticed the fuel in our dug-out much more than yesterday. Our house gets much worse and the greater part of the roof is so shattered that I doubt whether we can live there at all. The fire around us was not as bad as yesterday having no more houses to burn. It was really a sad sight. However, such is war and we cannot expect it otherwise.

At 7.00 p.m. the Sino-British Cultural Association were invited to dinner at the Jialing Hostel in honour of Guo Taiji. Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr made a very good speech and Guo Taiji’s reply was not bad at all. Chen Mingshu returned to stay with us and talked until 1.00 a.m.