London, Apr. 1.
The Foreign Office announced last night that it had received no official TU Bir confirmation of reports that Japan had annexed Spratley Island, formerly known as Storm Island.
British Government circles said that as far as was known here, Japan never challenged the French title to these lands since France annexed them in 1933.—United Press. ing, including the. new joy" liner, Robert Ley, in which Herr Hitler may go for a short is not fist Gas the new warship may dis-45,000 tons, and that it will be "Frederick the Great. of the Admiral von feet, and thi "warship's draught is Japan Does it Again New York, Apr. 1.
"Japan does it again," declares the "New York Times" in its comment on the annexation by the Japanese of the tiny Spratley Island, located in the Southern part of the China Sea.
"Characteristically enough, Japan has pounced on them while the European powers to whom they mean much are wholly absorbed in vital problems at home. Japan's flag now flies 700 miles south of Hainan."
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