/to the Editor of the "NommieCunsa Dancy News"
Sm—In your news columns of. Tuesday was published the following reference to the message led by me {o the "Manchester Guardian" which was suppressed by the Japanese authorities:
"It hag been stated that incor= porated in Mr, Timperley's message were statements that. 300,000 Chinese civilians had been executed following. the "Japanese occupation of the Shanghai-Nanking area."
'One of my objects in writing the letter of yesterday's date which you have refrained from publishing was {0 correct the above mis-statement, 'The word "executed" was not used' in my message. What 1 did say was: "A survey by one competent foreign observer indicates that in the Yangtze delta no less than 300,000 Chinese civilians have been slaughtered—in many cases in cold blood, T shall be obliged if you wil prominence to this correction.
4H. J, Trospemey, China Correspondent" "Manchester Guardian"
Shanghai, Jan, 19:
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