These sources, questioned, regard. ing the Japanese army spokesman's statement, reiterated the points made in the Reuter despatch of August 18, maintaining particularly that:
1, Up to the time the Reuter despatch was published (August 18), the foodstuffs sent to Lt.-Col, Spear by the British Embassy in Peiping on July had not been given to him, 2. Whatever the Japanese had up to that date offered It-Col. Spear in the way of food, he preferred not to eat it and to subsist on eggs and bread, 3. Up to that date Lt.-Col, Spear had not been offered an escort of hhis own rank to accompany him while taking out-of-door exercise, 4. Up to that date the telegram Lt.-Col Spear had requested to he sent fo the War Omeco asking whether he could agree to. escorted by an officer or soldier armed and in uniform, of lesser rank than his own, had hot been despatched by the Japanese, Reuters feel it their duty to. pr sent these results of their Investigation, "as they feel that their good name Is involved in the Japanese army spokesman's remarks concern {ng this case—Reuter,
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