Tokyo, Feb. 10.
Japanese military operations on Hainan Island do not constitute an infringement upon the Franco-Japanese agreement of 1907, a spokesman for the Foreign Office declared here toda; The landing of Japanese forces, he id, "is for exterminating Chin military forces on the island and is, therefore, an affair which has nothing to do with the question of assuring peace and security envisaged by the Japanese-French agreement."
Rear-Admiral Masao Kanazawa, spokesman for the Navy Ministr ioday denied that the Japanese Nav; had aggressive designs against French Indo-China. "Japan will fully respect French sovereignty in French Indo-China," he declared. The landing had been necessitated, he said, by the increased influx of arms and ammunition into China through ports d inlets in Annam and along the how peninsula—Domei, Purpose of Landing Told he operations on Hainan Island are net to strengthen the blockade nst Chinese shipping and thereby all of the Chiang This statement a Japanese naval spokesman, at the press conference in Shanghai last night, answering foreign correspondent, who enq if the landing hat been mad prevent the provisioning of Yunnan from the island.
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