At the press conference yesterday afternoon, the Japanese spokesman said that a protest had been received from the American authorities, but he was not in a position to divulge any details, No decision, he said in reply to a question, had been reached with regard to the delivery of coded telegrams arriving from abroad.
Another correspondent (Mr. H. J. Timperley), representing the "Manchester Guard stated that he understood that the British Consul-General had filed a protest with the Japanese Consul-General concerning the deletion of 90 words from a message of the correspondent's yesterday; the spokesman said he had not been given any information to this effect as yet.
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