Tokyo, Mar. 7.
Expansion of the British seizure of j|contraband goods to the Japan Sea was the last thing in the world the Japanesne navy desired, a spokesman for the Navy Office asserted today.
The Japanese Government, he pointed out, was faithfully pursuing a policy of neutrality in the European war and the extension of the European Conflict to the Far East was certainly mot desired by Japan.
Press reports that Britain contemplated extending the contraband seizure system to the Far East recently reached Tokyo.—Domei.
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