Tokyo, July 12.
The War OMice, in an unofficial tatement issued to-day, denied the Feport of Tass News Agency that! Captain Miyazaki, one of the Army's special service men in Manchuria, had attempted to steal Soviet secret papers at the Soviet Consulate-General in Heiho.
Captain Miyazaki, a member of the Manchoukuo delegation to the Soviet Manchoukuo River Navigation Conference. attempted to steal secret documents from the secretary's office while attending a reception at the Soviet Consulate-General, according to the Tass report.
"The War Office slatement said that Captain Miyazaki, after the reception was over, sought' to leave but found that the front door was locked. sat down in the drawing room walt Jing for some one to unlock the door, the statement explained, adding that the Japanese Army could not over-ook' such "false reports which are damaging to the prestige of the Imperial Army—United Press.
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