Over the Spring Holidays, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Japanese Navy Minister, had something to say before the House of Peers on the subject of the closing of the Yangtze io the shipping of third party neutrals. The statement which he made in reply to inter-2ellation's does not differ greatly from de-Jarations which have been made by other Japanese statesmen, though he manages to make admissions which sound somewhat strangely in view of the facts as they are snown in China. The Navy Minister is, of course, dependent upon reports which he receives from officials in this country, and t is charitable to assume that at the most
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