Reuters have been able to receive the texts of these telegrams only through the action of their Hongkong Office, which has now supplied copies of the telegrams as sent from Hongkon, incidentally, all the above telegrams were sent from Hongkong to London, where they were duly published.
Reuters also consider it their duty to their clients to inform them of another censoring incident which occurred to a telegram in transit between Reuter's Tsingtao and Shanghai offices.
On July 7, Reuter's Tsingtao Office despatched the following cable:
"Briton, Jock Crichton, stopped by Japanese sentry for stoking cigarette Commercial Wharf this morning. Crichton extinguished cigarette and apologized, whereupon sentry slapped his face."
The only telegram received from Tsingtao by Reuter's Shanghai Office on July 7 ran:
"Briton, Jock Crichton, stopped by Japanese sentry for smoking cigarette Commercial Wharf this morning, Crichton extinguished cigarette and apologized, whereupon sentry let hi go.""—Reuter. subscribed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.