Tokyo, Feb. 10.
Japanese military operations on Hainan Island do not constitute an infringement upon the Pranco-Japan-exe agreement of 1007, a spokesman Yor the Foreign Office' declared here today.
The landing of Japanese forces, he said, "is for exterminating "Chinese military forees on the island and Is, therefore, an affair which has noth to do with the question of assuring Jeace and security envisaged by the Admiral Masao Kanazawa, spokesman for the Navy Ministry, today denied that the Japanese Nave Indo-China. "Japan French sovereignly China," he declared, 'The landing Treen necessitated, he said, by the: increased influx of arms and _ammunition into China through porte ind Jnlets in' Annam and along the
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