The details of the fact are as follows. At 10:04 hours on August 27, two United States B-29 bombers flew to the sky above the city of Chi An and its vicinity to the right of the middle stretch of the Yalu River, circling and reconnoitring for more than 10 minutes. At 10:05 hours the same day, four United States airplanes consisting of three P-51's and one Mosquito flew to the sky above the area of Linchiang city and the nearby railway station of Talitzu to the right of the upper stretch of the Yalu River, strafing the station building at Talitzu for two minutes and along the railway lines for another two minutes, damaging one locomotive. At 11:04 hours another four United States airplanes came to the same area and machine-gunned the district around the bridge on the river for 11 minutes, damaging two locomotives, one passenger carriage and one guard carriage, and wounding one locomotive engineer and one inhabitant. At 14:30 hours the same day, a United States B-29 bomber circled and reconnoitred over the city of Antung to the right of the lower stretch of the Yalu River. At 16:40 hours, two United States P-51 planes came over the Antung airfield and strafed for two minutes, wounding 19 and killing three workers, and damaging two trucks.

These provocative and atrocious acts of invading the air of China on the part of the United States aggression forces in Korea are a serious criminal action of encroaching upon China's sovereignty, killing Chinese people; and attempting to extend the war and violate peace, a criminal action which the Chinese people can by no means tolerate. Apart from lodging a serious protest and raising demands to Mr Dean Acheson, the United States Secretary of State, I hereby raise, on behalf of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, this accusation before the United Nations Security Council and propose that for the sake of peace and security of Asia and the world, the United Nations Security Council is obliged by its inalienable duties to condemn the United States aggression forces in Korea for their provocative and atrocious action of invading China's air, and to take immediate measures to bring about the complete withdrawal of all the United States aggression forces from Korea, so that the situation will not be aggravated and the peaceful regulation of the Korean question by the United Nations will be facilitated.

Chou En-Lai
Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China

Peking, August 27 1950

Source: People's China 1950