Accusing British and other news agencies and newspapers of disseminating malicious propaganda about the stripping incidents in Tientsin, since the beginning of the blockade of the British Concession there, the Embassy spokesman at yesterday's press conference stated that a Japanese protest had been lodged with the British authorities in Tientsin on the matter yesterday. He added-that these malicious statements were being disseminated with a view to make the issue one of general appeal invoking human principles, He also indicated that he did not believe that the reports received here on the subject were true.
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