The report appearing in this journal concerning the shooting of a Chinese by a Japanese sentry on Keswick Road was attacked by the Japanese spokesman on March 2 at" the Press Conference, according to Domei. The spokesman is reported to have taken strong exception to this journal's statement that. foreigner who visited the scene sharily after the incident stated that no roll of copper wire was to be seen in the neighbourhood, and 10 have added "This is not the frst time that this newspaper has sacrificed the truth In favour of national interests." Tt is necessary that the tention of the Japanese spokesman, who so fncilely. accuses this journal of Prevarication, to the fact that it published two accounts of the ineldent—one that resulted from its own inquiries and the other supplied to it by Japanese sources. There are material differences between the two, but in fairness to the Japanese the two recounts were published. The' spokesman produced a photograph of a roll of wire near some barbed wire entanglements as proof that the Cltinese was indeed doing what the Japa~ alleged. But it has to be pointed out that photograph proves nothing except that itis.a picture of a roll of wire, no details being niven of when, where, and In what circumstances: it-was taken, and, in the- absence of such details, the evidential value of the picture must bbe regarded as exceedingly small. The Japs nese version claims that the sentry shot Chinese dei; the information in the possession of this Journal is that he died three hours later hospital, If with regard to the roll of eopper wire Japanese information is no more ae. curate than as to whether the Chinese was shot dead or not, this journal must be forgiven if It prefers to accept the story as shown by its own investigation in preference to that given from Japanese sources. Unlike the Japanese spokesman this Journal does not siggest for one moment that national interests dictate the manifest Inaceuracles in. the Japanese account of the matter, nor that the Japanese have been guilty of wilful tergiversation, though it takes the liberty to express doubts as to whether the Japanese spai the subject, as he should have been, aman was, as fully Informed on making such a charge,
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