Tokyo, May 2.
Representations, aiming at the release of a British vessel being detained bythe Japanese Navy off Canton:'on charges of smuggling arms and ammunition, were filed with Mr. Renzo Sawada, Vice-
Minister for Foreign Affairs, by Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador. when he called at the Foreign Office at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Sir Robert is also understood to have sought information regarding the Hua Hsing Commercial Bank established under Sino-Japanese auspices in Shanghai yesterday as the sole bank of issue chartered by the Reformed Government" in Nanking.—Domei.
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