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JAPANESE REJECT PROTESTS TOKIO, Japan, Nov. 15. Japan today flatly rejected American, British and French protests over the closing of the Yangstze river to traffic. Reopening of the stream is "not warranted," a foreign office spokesman said, since commercial navigation would seriously hamper military operations. The separate protests of the three western powers pointed out that, whereas the Japanese coniended that mines and bombs made navigation of the Yangstze perilous, Nipponese warships were able to move up and tlown stream.
