Kobe, Sept. 23, Confirmation of reported recent heavy arms shipments from France to Indo-China, alleged to be for eventual transportation to Yunnan, were obtained here today with the arrival of the Messageries Maritimes vessel Yangtse, 8,049 tons, Captain Georges, master of the ship, today was quoted by Japanese newspapers here as stating that his vessel had sailed from Dunkirk on July 7 with 120 tons of hand grenades, 19 cases of rifles and machine guns, five cases of bombs for aircraft use, and six cases of aeroplane parts, These arms, the French captain was reported to have declared, were loaded under the instructions of the French Ministry of War, Sixty tons of hand grenades, he was further quoted as saying, were discharged at Saigon on August 30, while the remainder of the shipment was unloaded at Haiphong on September 10.—Domei.
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