6 Assurance to Great Britain Tokyo, Feb. 5.
An important statement explaining the despatch.of troops." to Shanghai, which was to have been! given out today, has been post-Boned owing apparently to" the] Cabinet desiring to reconsider the ex net number of troops ved 3 And possibly seducing' the original While details of the troops patched to Shanghai are stil banned from publication, the censorship has now been lifted to the extent of permitting the mention of the despatch of troops.
is officially explained that Mx. Shigemitsu, the Japanese Minister to China, urged that the matter should be kept strictly sceret.temporarily, as he feared the mention Of the ye-inforcements might induce the Chinese to launch a general offensive aiming to annihilate the bluejackets who had already lost] over 10 per cent, in casualties.
Officials egret the embarrassment this caused Bir. Debuchi, the Japanese Arabassador to Washington. who recently assured Col. Uenry L. Stimson, the American Secretary' of State, that no troops were being sent to anghai, but
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