Japanese Travesty of Facts with British at Tongshan Peking, Oct, 9.
Peking show that the Nippon Det ported that, during the recent fij ing between the Nationalists and the remnant of the Chihli-Shantung armies at Tongshan, the former demanded some rolling-stock from the Kailan Mining Administration and that this led to a serious altercation with the British troops and a el: in which one British soldier killed and another wounded.
Reuter's Agency learns offciatly true and that there was no altercation and no clash. The only incident which might have given rise to this fabrication was that, when some Tommies were playing foot-
Chibli-Shantung forces, a stray bullet penetrated the seat of one man's trousers, inflicting a very slight flesh wound. During the fighting in the vicinity of Tongehan the British detachment there was on the best. of terms with the Nationalist soldiers the whole tine,—Reuter.
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