The. spokesman did not answer a question whether Japanese aviators: endeavoured to distinguished between Chinese refugees and Chinese troops.
However, he denied all knowledge' of the matter when asked regarding the "stand still order on the Yangtze" (alleged to have been issued by the [Japanese commanding officer at Wuhu, Colonel Hashimoto, forbidding any' movement on the Yangtze for three days), oF the allegation that Japanese troops had been ordered to dre fon all ships on the Yangtze.
The spokesman also said he knew nothing about the reported German protest to the Japanese Embassy Berlin concerning the bombing of the British steamer Whangpoo, which had. aboard the officers of the German.
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