The very courteous manner in which the Japanese spokesman disagreed, at the morning's Press Conference on Mar. 18, with this journal's editorial on the subject of journalistic honour, {inspires the hope that it will not be taken amiss if It ig pointed out that it Is erroneous to st that this journal attributed the statement concerning the alleged bribery of two correspondents by the National Government to him. The passage in the leading article referred to When that fact is realized, that the rel between Router and Central Nows Agency isa Tien lipan the agency 1s seduced to Proper and businesslike one, the Tokyo "Nichi
proper perspective.
'S0 is the charge made by the same paper that two foreign Joulnalits have been bribed by the National Government, ete.
The original Reuter message from Tokyo, however, opens as follows:—
The Japanese Army claims to have discovered secret documenta in General Chiang Kal-chok's Chinese Government. that message from Reuter is inaccurate, and that agency is remarkable for the consistency of its accuracy, then the Japanese spokesman would render a real service by making it known, If on the other hand the Japanese Army does fact claim to have made such a discovery the onus of proving that claim lies with the Japanese Army, If indeed they have' such evidence it should be produced. A most unwarrantable slur has been east upon the whole foreign Journalistic body in Ching, and the matter ought to be cleared up one way or the other. Tt may be that the "Nichi Nicht" pulled the trigger: the question, however, is who loaded the gun? The inference from the message is that the "Nichi Nichi" was inspired by someone, and it that Someone is the service which is' said to have made such discoveries, and, if a portion of the evidence could be produced In Shanghai
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