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11055 little, planation whatever, merely as an extempore guess on his part, would be interesting to know if this actually represents the correct state of affairs. Speculations hazarded as to probabilities carry the matter no further, and courtesy demands a The one given has about it aspects, The p y permit is issued by the command of the Japanese Third Fleet, and it is suggested that the action of the two reservists was taken probably under the orders ofa high officer of the Naval Landing Party. It is unbelievable that the authorities would issue permits to photographers on the one hand, and that someone else should issue orders rendering them nugatory. But that, if the official spokesman's version of the matter is the correct one, is what must have happened, and, if it were, then the humiliation to which a representative of this journal was subjected is nothing to that which should be felt in other, and, perhaps, more exalted quarters.
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