"Who can refute the fact that the Chinese had noticed individually all foreigners, ay well as Chinese, who lived in that part of the Settlement which les east of the Soochow Creek and urged them to move out of the district for safety by nightfall of Aug. 137 "And who can. @nally, deny that when the Chinese forces had Iaunch= ed an attack from both air and land, the only remaining inhabitants int the attacked "area" were Japanese non-combatants?
"Suppose that the Chinese had succeeded in breaking through the Japanese defence line that. night, Then the fate of the tons of thousands of Japanese residents would have been the same as that which befell 300 Japanese men, women and children a short time earlier 'Such "outstanding and undeniable" facts. the spokesman said, should ever be ignored by "those who Wield the power of the press.'
The statement was in reply to an editorial in the "New York Times on Oct. 4, in which that journal criticized the spokesman for his failure to substantiate his contention that the Shanghai incident was caused by Chinese "provocations."
When the Shanghai " hostilities broke out on Aug. 13, he went on. 3,000 Japanese bluejackets faced a Chinese force ten times that number.
Commenting on the concentration of Japanese warships in Shanghai Just prior to the outbreak of the incident; the spokesman said that the Japanese gunboats and destroyers assembled in. the harbour reached Shanghai as convoys for ships carrying Japanese nationals from. the Yangtze River ports to safoty.—Domei..
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