Tokyo, Aug. 15.
The Japanese Navy is not planning to request a change in the status of the American defence sector in Shanghai at present, the spokesman for the Navy Office, Rear Admiral Masao Kanazawa, told the press today.
In answer to a questioner, who asked if the Navy would request a change in the status of the American sector, Admiral Kanazawa said the question now under discussion is limited to the British sectors, from which the British garrison is being withdrawn. The Navy, the spokesman said, hoped that an amicable settlement of the question of the disposition of the British defence sectors would be reached on the spot—United Press, Tt had been proved before, and it would be proved again, the War Secretary declared, that sea power was. a stronger weapon than land T. The Germans knew this well, but they hoped in this war to overcome the difficulty by mastery of the air, but greatly superior sea power with rapidly growing air power was a much more likely means,
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