Berlin, Feb. 13.
Full approval of Japan's action over Hainan Island was voiced in the press here this morning.
"Whatever Japan's previous under takings, the papers said, the necessities of her anti-Communist struggle and her rights to expansion were enough to justify Tokyo's initiative.
"Last summer the British Under-
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, declared in the House of Commons that an occupation of Hainan Island by the Japanese would raise complications," the "Nazional Zeitung" stated. "But, as on every other occasion when a totalitarian state poured salt and pepper in the democratic soup, mere notes of protest will be sent to which Japan will reply correctly and unequivocally. The reorganization of East Asia will not be halted by the exhumation of ancient treaties, by notes, or by attempts at interference. It may be hoped that the democratic states will realize this."
The "Frankischer Tageszeitung" also unreservedly supported the Japanese point of view.
"Japan has the full right to take whatever measures she deems proper io wipe out Bolshevism in China," this paper added. "The Japanese did no more than General Franco in his occupation of Minorca. Japan needs vital space. The conquest of Hainan is a significant event within the framework of the development being pursued along the Pacific coast,"—Havas,
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