H, M. Consul-General protested to the Civil Governor against these reports and on August 5 a published in the giving a condensed sion of the facts as communicated by H. M, Consul-General to the Civil Governor. In the "Shen Pao" of August 6 a contradiction of the, false newspaper reports was inserted by General Long. In spite of these official denials, the students Nanking, alleges the memor-Sndum, continued their endeavours, to stir up anti-British feeling by; spreading the most direct and de-Ties. Thus, on August 10, the Southwestern University, a Government. institution, distributed The first reports published in Peking were to the effect that dispute had arisen at the International Export Company's factory and the British had fired on the rioters, killing four and wounding several others. On the same evening, a corrected report was issued by Reuter's Agency, stating that the coolies had been cleared out of factory without casualties, and that uch casualties as did occur through the conflict between the Chinese police and the workmen outside the factory. This corrected report, it is emphasized, was ignored by the leading Chinese newspapers of Peking, which continued for days. afterwards to conceal the truth and delude the public by false reports, The memorandum concludes by giving a number of illustrations of the manner fin which this press campaign was conducted in the capital by Chinese newspapers of ys, "that this campaign falsehood continued day, unchecked, although the true facts must have been available in Chinese official quarters, and! were actually given out by Reuter' Agency on the evening of August 1 for publication in any Acwspaper willing to publish them. On August 5, most of the newspapers published Civil Governor: in which no reference is made any killing of Chinese by the; British. The significance of thir appears to have been deliberately ignored. It appears that two days later (on August 7) the Kiangsu Provincial authorities telegraphed {o°the Government that no. shots had been fired by the British; this Report seems to have been firs' published in the local press on August 11,"—Reuter's Pacific Ser-
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