Chinese reports alleging that there was street fighting in Tsinan between Chinese plain clothes men and Japanese troops were denied by a Japanese Embassy spokesman here yesterday, on the basis of information received from the Japanese Consulate-General 1n the Shantung capital on Sunday.
"We have been in constant comimunication with the Consulate-General and no mention is made of any said, fighting near Tsinan," the spokesman.
The denial was made in the course of supplementary remarks by the (Continued on page 6)
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