Tokyo, July 13.
Today's comments of the Japanese press regarding the question of the Paracel Islands, recently occupied by. the French, are marked by vigorous language.
The Tokyo "Asahi Shimbum," for instance, calls the French step a "breach of trust." France apparently misunderstood or wished to misunderstand the essential point of the Japanese protest against the occupation of the islands, the paper states, pointing out that the Japanese demand for the respecting of Japanese rights was only a minor point compared with the demand for the withdrawal of the French force of occupation. The latter demand had, however, apparently been simply disregarded, The occupation, the paper stresses, was illegal and was moreover completely incompatible with the note presented by the French Ambassador to Japan on September 18 of last year which: declared that France did not intend to occupy or annex the islands before the question of the sovereignty: of the islands had been definitely" settled between France and Chinal "Trans-Ocean.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.