Tokyo, Oct. 6.
The Shanghai affair was the outcome of "well considered Chinese provocations" as was "clear to al who were willing to study the matter calmly and dispassionately," a spokesman of the Foreign Office to-day told foreign press correspondents, "Who can deny," the spokesman declared, "that on the night of August 13 the 30.000 Japanese residents and refugees in Shanghai were facing terrible slaughter when a vast number of Chinese troops attacked the Japanese Naval Landing Party, attempted to break through the thin line of Japanese defence, and to cut off contact between the northern and the. eastern sectors, annihilate the entire Japanese and civilians before Japanese forcements reached Shanghai?
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