London, June 22 It is held here to be unlikely that the British and United States warships now at Swatow will respond to the Japanese request to leave the port by one o'clock this afternoon.
The request itself is regarded by the London press as an ultimatum which may bring developments in the Far East to a climax. The British Admiralty, it is learned, has however not yet received any report of an official character from Hongkong, having merely heard of the ultimatum from "another—quarter."—Trans-
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