The Archive · 1937

Flights Not Legal

The Chinese contention that flights of Japanese military aircraft over Chinese territory were illegal was also denied by Japanese military headquarters, Under the Tangku truce agreement of 1933, a military spokesman claimed, the Japanese had the right to observe Chinese military movements by means of aircraft, With passenger and ordinar freight traffic at a standstill, the Peiping-Hankow railways tracks in Southern Hopei are congested with military trains, the Japanese military headquarters here said to-day on the basis of obs ion flights.—Domei.

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