Tokyo, June 21 Newspapers today asserted Great Britain has started informal economic reprisals against Japan in retaliation for the blockade of the British and French Concessions at Tientsin, It was asserted British ships are avoiding taking cargoes of Japanese ore for trans-Port to foreign countries.—United Press. spread to other concessions and settlements as "misgivings of those on the passive end 'No change in' the Japanese policy towards the Kulangsu question was expected by Admiral Yonai, who was confident that some develop tment would soon take place in Amoy following the return " there of Mr. Goro Uchida, Japanese Consul-Gentral, who visited Tokyo recently for fa bier consultation with high Japan ese officials Japan's policy towards reopening the Yangtze to general navigation, the Navy Minister declared, had already been determined.
"We must first take into considera~ tion strategic requirements. Japan now fighting In earnest, Tt seems to me that there is basic difference the opinions of a nation earnestly engaged in warfare and those of countries which have no relation to such @ghting." he remarked.
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