Chungking, Jan. 18.
Commenting on the British Note to Japan, the' spokesman of the Foreign Office stated yesterday that the "British Note expresses an attitude of justice. It shows that Great Britain's firm stand in the Far Eastern conflict has. remained unchanged, despite the threatening statements which have been repeatedly issued from Tokyo.
"The Note," continued the spokesman, "reaffirms Great Britain's adference to the fundamental principles of the Nine-Power Treaty, and her refusal to recognize any unilateral modification of that Treaty or any changes in China which have been brought about by force.
"The stand thus defined. by the British Government is identical with that vigorously affirmed in the two American Notes to Japan, on October 6, 1938, and on December 31, 1938."
"Observation is made in the British Note," the Foreign Office spokesman went on, "that Tokyo's denials of territorial designs in China can hardly Ihe reconciled with the demands announced by Prince Konoye.
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