London, Mar. 1.
Great Britain to-day admitted that the United States had Howland, Jarvis and Baker Islands in the South Pacife.
The Foreign Ofice said that the title to the islands appeared to have never been very clear, A spokesman said, "We thought we had a claim to these. island Dut, if the United States. hi formally annexed them. and established a claim in internation-law, Great Britain will not Aispute' their ownership.
It was recalled that Great Britain had once leased the three islands to an Australian company, bhut that they had never been inhabited—United Press.
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