Substantiation Offered for "Provocation" Thesis Tokyo, Oct. 6
The Shanghai affair was the outcome. of "well. considered Chinese Provoeations" ae was "clear to" all ho were willing to study the matter falmly-and dispassionately." @ spokes man of the Foreign Office to-day told {oreign press correspondent, "who, can. deny," the spokesman declared, "that 6a. the "night. 'August. is the 90000 Jepanese resi= ents and retuses in Shanghai were facing terrible slaughter when a vast umber of Chinese troops. attacked the' Japanese Naval, Landing Party, stlemplad to break through the thi Tine' of dapsnese defence, and to cut contact betwoon the northern and the eastern sectors: and. then Japanese Extrality to
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