CEGORICAL denial of reports that an American missionary:
woman had been strangled to death by Japanese troops at Hwaian, in northern Kiangsu province, was made yesterday after-n@ep by the local Japanese Army breis bureau.
Woman was killes, or in reports "There. is absolutely no truth in reports that an American that other American missionaries are under detention," the press bureau announced. The statement of the Japanese Army authorities here was made upon the of detailed information from the commanders of Japanese unit operating in the Hwaian sector.
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