When questioned by the British of-'Acer, Smith 9 alleged to have stated reported to have said the same. Turner, the police report states, told the officer that he had "forgotten" to Tokyo, Nov. 6.
'The Foreign Office has replied to the British complaint over Incident at Keelung, Formosa, October 7, In which' three British tailors are "alleged to have been manhandled -by Japanese police and British naval officer insulted.
The reply, ft 1s understood, ex: plains the whole incident on the basis of the original report of the Keelung police, which stated that the three fallers concerned did not pays taxi= cab fare; were questioned by the Japanese police; and set free the next morning after having been treated in "quite unimpeachable" manner.
judicial investigation Into the affair was made, the reply adds, and, '5.0 result, the report of the Keelung police was endorsed.
Meanwhile, Mr. Eiji Amau, spokesman of the Foreign Odlce, inter viewed by pressmen to-day, expressed surprise thet official British circles had complained about his recent remarks on the incident (in which he was reported to have Hated that, "after the British 'Submarines lett "Keelung, a British naval ensign was found floating in the harbour, which showed the conditions beta' hen the vests weighed Affaire anchor," and that the postponement Of the visit to Japanese ports of the Visit of Vice-Admirel Sir Charles Little, Commarder-in-Chief of the China Station, was "entirely a British Mr. Amau pointed out that all the Japanese newspapers had ignored the Incidents which recurred during the Be] visit of HES.
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