The Archive · 1938

No Official Reply

Tokyo, Nov. 9.

The Japanese Government has no jmtention of filing another protest with the French Government against the transportation of arms and_ammunition to China through Indo-China and the French Leased Territory Kwangchow Bay, a spokesman of the Foreign Office told foreign correspondents today.

The French Government, however, was expected to stop the movement of arms and ammunition soon, the spokesman said.

No official reply had been received from the French Government to the Tokyo Government's first protest, according to the spokesman, Tramle between French Indo-China and China has increased considerably since the fall of Canton, according to press.dispatch from Hanol-

'Air service between Hanoi and Ytnnantu, capital of Yunnan province, ormerly' on a weekly basis, has Joubled, the dispatch said. A' large Jnumber' of Chinese, refugees took' lanes to Hanoi from China, the dispatch said.

The Bank of China was arranging.

establish a branch office in Hanoi, the message stated. When this office starts business Hanoi will replace Yongkong as the financial centre of she Chiang Kal-shek regime, the osage predicted.

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