Refuting the contentions contained in an editorial published in the "North-China Daily News" yesterday morning, a Japanese Army spokes man denied that Japanese military authorities had specifically accused any "two foreign correspondents" of receiving bribes from the Chinese.
"The learned writer of the editorial garbled his facts—either from mising formation or a lack of information," he spokesman stated. "We cannot cheve that the garbling was done in malice."
It appeared that the writer of the editorial, the officer further declared, let accuracy fall by the wayside, in his enthusiasm to defend Reuters."
Charges that foreign correspondents had been bribed by the Chinese authorities were made by the Tokyo newspaper "Nichi-Nichi" on the basis of its own information, and not by Japanese military authorities in Shanghai, the spokesman pointed out,
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