Charges disseminated by the local Japanese press that the small party of British soldiers which closed a "Ta Tao" police station in Great Western Road last Thursday, tore a Reformed Government" flag to es, threw mud at a photograph of the former Japanese Premier, Prince Konoye, and beat one of the Chinese constables attached to the station, were categorically denied yesterday by the British military authorities.
Major B. H. Ashmore, Brigade Major of the British Forces in Shanghai, who accompanied the party of soldiers when they closed ihe station because it was situated actually on a Shanghai Municipal road, said that the closing was effected completely without incident, the Chinese constables leaving the premises without a murmur. He denied emphatically all three allegations made by the Japanese press. There was no tearing of flags, no mud-slinging and no assault on "Ta Tao" constables, The closing of the station and the reasons therefor were accurately reported in the "North-China Daily News" on Friday, it being emphasized that everything went smoothly and photographs being published showing the neatness with which the contents of the post were placed outside the building by the evicters,
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