The Japanese military spokesman yesterday definitely denied that any Japanese soldiers had fred on a British lady, asserting that there were no bullet marks on the wheels or fon the tyre, which it was stated blew because of the speed with which the car was being driven.
"The spokesman stated that during these mananivres, only blank rounds were used, These nightly manceuvres will be continued f6r some time and at no time will ball ammunition be used. to the Japanese Navy and, for the time being, the only goods which the Japanese authorities" would permit being Ianded would be foodstuffs destined for third patty nationals and mail, he continued.
'A. request had been made, he said, to the authorities of those nations who had only one or two nationals at Swatow that their mail should be carried in the ships which would call fat Swatow once a week.
'Asked if the s. Yunnan, which was due at Swatow from 'Tientsin on the morning of July 1, had arrived, the spokesman replied' that he had no news of this but she may have been allowed to go in if she had given notice to the Japanese authorities, On account of high seas, he added, naval operations against Foochow had not been completed and there seem-fed to have been a local understanding connection with the evacuation of third party nationals,
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