London, Jan. 18.
Mr. Kawamu Chairman of the en's Association, etter to "The Times" replies to the letter, published paper on December Nicholson, Chairman tion of the London Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of British interests in China, Emphasizing that the Japanese authorities have taken extreme care to cause as little inconvenience as possible to foreigners in China, Mr. Kawamura cites, as an instance, that Japanese operations in the fighting in Shanghai, in 1937, were specially hampered.
Referring to navigation on the Yangtze, he says that the low level of the water in winter-time has impeded the removal of the boom and the sweeping up of mines. Such obstacles, he points out, must be removed before navigation can be resumed with safer; In Tsingtao, Mr. omura declares, the Chinese sank more than 200 ships alongside the wharves to hamper the Japanese Navy's a proach, These are now being re-
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