The source of the dispatch the spokesman pointed out, was similar to that of a report when thousands of Chinese civilians were alleged to have been killed in a Japanese air raid on Canton in September last year.
This report which was given world-wide distribution by a well-known British news agency, was subsequently denied by an investigation on the spot carried out by a representative of a British newspaper in Hongkong.
"Sunday's report emanated from the same agency, but this time it did not say that bodies of dead men, women, and children were lying i the streets like flies on fly pape the spokesman declared.
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