Tokyo, Aug. 23.
A spokesman of the Japanese Foreign OMce confirmed to-day the receipt of the British Government' rote in which the right to claim @amages for losses suffered by British nationals in Shanghai is reserved, but refrained from any comment.
The spokesman likewise confirmed the request of the commander-in-chiot the U.S. Asiatic Fleet In Shanghai that the Japanese flagship be removed from its anchorage in the Immediate vicinity of foreign warships. Imme-Giately after the: transmission of this wish to Admiral Hasegawa, the latter had changed the flagship's place of anchorage.—Trans-Ocean.
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