Attack In Shanghai London, Oct, 28.
Prince Tokugawa and other Japan-Jose peers replying in "The Times" toto the orities of their letter pub-fished on Oct.'6 regarding who began the hostilities in Shanghai, insist that ithe Japanese forees in Shanghai JAug. 13 numbered only 3,500 blue-Hackets, including 1,000 landed on (Aug. 11.
The other signatories are Viscount {ishil, and Barons Hayashi, "Matsui, [Seine Sukegoh and Higo Fukai, "In view of the tremendous dis parity between this force and the [Chinese troops who outnumbered the [Japanese blue-Jackets ten to one, line letter states, "it cannot be serious"
suggested that the Japanese were the attackers." me letter asserts that the Japanese sul on Aug. 18, after desultory lighting had broken out in Hongkew, endeavoured, through the medium of the British, American and. French (Consuls, to' arrange a mutual Sino-Japanese withdrawal, "No reply," the letter adds, "was received by the Japanese Consul, but the fact that such a proposal' was Imade is decisive proof that there was uno intention to attack."—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.