Tokyo, Dec. 28.
The long statement issued last night by the Foreign Office, on behalf of the military section of the Imperial Headquarters, concerning the shelling the Ladybird near Wuhu on December 12, was the subject of discussion to-day between Mr, J, L.
Dodds, Counsellor of the British Embassy, and the spokesman of the Foreign Office, No one must assume, Mr, Dodds declared, that the British Embassy accepted the version of the incident contained in the statement, which, he pointed out, conflicted with reports on the subject resolved by the Embassy Reuter,
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