REUTERS ANSWER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 79, 30 September 1914, Page 7

REUTERS ANSWER

TO QUERY BY THE TIMES. (TIMES AND STDNET SUN SERTICKI.) LONDON, 28th September. Reuters News Agency, in reply to the leading article in The Times, states that it has never published news transmitted by the German bureau affecting British interests adversely, unless plain matters of fact are to be'so interpreted. [The Times aeked : "Did Reuters Agency take any precautions when communicating to the press its telegrams from Berlin to give warning that those telegrams were of German official or semi-official origin, so as to enable the public to distinguish between such telegrams and those despatched by Reuters own correspondents?"] GUNBOAT GOING CHEAP SOLD FOR TWENTY-TWO PENCE. _, SHANGHAI, 29th September. The German river-gunboat Tsingtau (168 tons, built in 1903) was off the Bund at Canton on the outbreak of hostilities, and was entrusted to the chief engineer, as the majority of the crew had gone to Tsingtau. One morning she disappeared, dropped her guns and ammunition overboard, returned to the Bund, and wag sold to a German firm for twenty-two pence. She is now registered aB a merchantman.