Tokyo, May 18.
Rear-Admiral Kanazavea, spokesman fof the Navy, was today subjected to barrage of questions in. connection with the situation in Kulangsu. He admitted that no Japanese nationals were attacked and that no Japanese property was damaged before the landing of the naval party, Nevertheless, he said, the Japanese naval authorities considered the land-Ing of a naval purty as "a necessary emergency measure of self-defence."
Rear-Admiral Kanazawa, however, saw "nothing in the situation which necessitated similar action on the part of the British and' American havel authorities." He was unable, he said to understand why the Japan: ese action ili Kulangsu had caused Such' furore abroad.—Reuter.
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