Tokyo, Feb. 14.
Representations to Japan concerning the Japanese occupation of Hainan Island were made today by the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, on behalf of the British Government. Sir Robert calfed on the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, at 920 o'clocie this morning, and handed him a Note in Which the British Government asked for an explanation, The British Note was similar to that presented yester= day morning by the French Ambassador, M. Charles Arsene-Henry, it. Arita's explanation to Sir Robert Craigie was virtually identical with the assurances he gave the French Ambassador, namely, that the duration of the Japanese occupation of Hainan would not exced that of military necessity, and that Japan had territorial designs there—Reuter.
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