Many Chinese placed in prison on charges of treason have been executed and their bodies which were thrown into the Yangtze are now coming to the surface and are floating past foreign vessels anchored in the river at Hankow, a Japanese army spokes-nian declared yesterday afternoon in strongly refuting charges that Japanese military authorities in Hankow have been wantonly executing Chinese prisoners.
Reiterating that these charges are false, the spokesman pointed out that allegations are now being made that these Chinese found floating in the river, who were killed by the Chinese authorities as traitors, were shot by the Japanese.
The spokesman later pointed out that the Chinese authorities, before evacuating the city, carried out a wholesale execution of prisoners charged with treason, Examination bus revealed that each of the bodies had a placard on which was printed the word "traitor" in Chinese characters,
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