Tokyo, Feb. 25. The British Government takes the view that the Japanese Government is responsible for seeing that no attacks are made by the Japanese forces on the life and property of British nationals in China.
This is the gist of a communication handed by the British Embassy to the Foreign Office to-day in reply to the Japanese Note of February 15, in which British nationals were advised to eva-enate a huge area in Central China, north of the Yangtze, or otherwise to distinguish their property by means of flags and, if possible, to supply the Japanese authorities with maps showing the location, British nationals in China, the British reply adds, may voluntarily wish to comply with the Japanese requirements.—Reuter.
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