Reuters has once again become the object of violent attack by the "Hongkong Daily Press," this time for its publication of the. reported clash between General Yen Hsi-shan's "old" and "new" armies in Shansi.
In a vigorous leader, denouncing the Reuter report as "inaccurate from one end to the other" and as "hardly meriting the compliment of serious factual analysis," the "Daily Press" declares:
"It is a matter for some regret that..an agency as reputable as Reuters should so far be influenced by the environment of the occupied territories as to permit itself, not only to fall into the trap of accepting the Japanese version of happenings in the interior of Free China, but also to perpetrate the sin, unpardonable for an organization devoted to the accurate reporting of news, of commenting on such happenings in the way most pleasing to China's enemies."
No mention is made in the "Daily Press's" attack of the explanation from Chungking that "minor clashes" had occurred in Shansi, as a result of the "insubordination" of "about 3,000
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