To the Editor of the NontH-CHina Dat New Sim—It_ seems to me that your Tientsin correspondent is. riding on the wrong horse when he Inbours under the delusion that certain Japanese are responsible for the spread of misinformation, which, in his opinion, is. responsible for the recent state of affairs in Peking. 1 remember that a few days ago your Tientsin correspondent maliciously and without any foundation whatever accused the Japanese garrison at Chingwantuo of having. een instructed to oppose by force the retirement of Marshal Wu's troops by sea. Forcunately enough, however, such unjustifiable report was strongly repudiated by Lieut. Colonel Okmura, the Japanese Military agent in Shanghai, who, while taking very little or' no notice of such childish, false accusation, ave an explanation at some length as regards the actual state of affairs merely for the information of yourself as well as of readers of your Paper so that no misunderstanding may be harboured by the public.
It is quite clear to me and this view, I trust, will be shared by all right-minded' persons, that your tientsin correspondent {is addicted to setting forth some malicious and deliberate slanders against Japan without any positive proof, For instance, your correspondent say's that Japanese correspondents have not only endeavoured to do service to Chang Tso-lin's cause by their control of the news but they have also tried to breed trouble in other ways. This accusation of his is. a manger" in the isop's Fables, Your Tientsin correspondent must have been grow some war-stuff judging from the fact that he had failed to realize General Feng Vu-hsiang's coup @etat in Peking until after his arrival in the It is not an exaggeration to say that most of Japanese correspondents in China are more versed in Chinese affairs than ordinary for-ign correspondents of your Tientsin correspondents category.
It is to be pointed out that the course of events not only in China bat everywhere on the globe ways shifting and that decidedly General Feng's coup did not come all of a sudden without any previous obvious signs. The reason why certain Japanese correspondents and news agencies reported the said coup in Peking simultaneously with the happening of the incident is that they had always closely watched the course of events "in the light" instead of "in the dark."
Tt is absurd rather than foolish to suppose that Japanese news-Papers and press-agencies are supporting Chang Tso-lin because news or messages concerning the Chihli-Fengtien war despatched by them happened to be favourable to Fengtien, Be it remembered that it is a fact well known to the public that the war situation up in the North has been actually proving unfavourable to Marshal Wa Pei-fu's troops which, as the fact shows, have 50 far been defeated by their opponents. Under the above cireumstances, it is quite natural that they have cabled messages about the victories of Chang Tso-lin's forces.
Is there any wonder, I dare to ask you, Dear Editor, that Japan-
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