An accompanying editorial on the same page refutes the Japanese claim that its forces were merely seeking out a missing soldier lost while "on maneuvers" and that the fighting started when Chinese forces "illegally" fired on Japanese forces.
同版的社論上，則反駁了日人聲稱兵士失蹤，入城搜索，我方「非法射擊」而引起戰端的說法。