Shanghai, July 25, Asked whether the Japanese naval authorities in Hankow had received protest regarding the Mason case, the Spokesman at_ yesterday's press cons ference said that no such protest had been received regarding the "alleged" ease, "There 1s a tendency of tate," the spokesman continued, "on the part of certain newspapers and news agen fo distorting the true facts particular alleged incidents "involving third-party nationals and the Japa ese authorities as for instance in the ease of the Rey. Mr. Holland, which must be regarded as a deliberate attempt to worsen relations between the United States and Japan, Another ease which fortunately did not each the foreign press, is reported from Wuhu, where a small child ran to its parents and said that he had Just been beaten by a Japanese "investigations however r. sealed that the child in question had been playing with Japanese soldiers and had hurt itself. When a soldier ted him. on his head, he ran home and made the accusation, "Foreign newspapers frequently act very mich like this child did)" the spokesman concluded.
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