Up to the capture of Canton by the Japanese, he continued, the Canton-Hankow railway was a very important artery for this trate, but after the fall of that city the Indo-China route is the only main artery left for it, though some may be coming into Sinkiang from Soviet Russia, and possibly also via Burma, "Therefore," Admiral Kanazawa said, "we naturally attach great importance to the arms trae via the Indo-China route. We want it stopped in order to accomplish our objective of stopping General Chiang Kaishek as soon as possible, so we hope the French authorities will do their best to bring about the cessation of this trade as far as possible.
"We appreciate the attitude of the French government and the authorities on. the spot and what they are doing to halt this trade. We depend fon their sincere ce-operation as the means of getting a quick solution of this problem. Tt is difficult to learn the exact details of the trame. But we know from the fact that Chiang Kai-shek is boasting of being able to put up long resistance against Japan that he is actualy getting arms from somewhere, While such talk may be partly discounted as Chinese propaganda, nevertheless they are getting considerable arms through the Indo-China route. Lately Japanese residents in Indo-China have been suffering from some forms of oppression, and while we cannot say exactly as to where our information as to this, arms trae comes from, some of it, anyhow, emanates from those residents There."
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