Tokyo, June 19.
Further curtailing the influx of books, magazines and newspapers from abroad, which has already been considerably affected by the Government's control of foreign exchange and imports, book-importers in Japan have been warned that henceforth If France is not really assisting Hankow, the newspaper asserts, she must prove it by facts and not mere statements.
Especial prominence is given by Japanese newspapers to the alleged Construction by China and Russia of a railway from Chungking to Sinkiang via Chinghai. This line, it is stated would bring China's wartime capital within 67 hours of Moscow.
The "Asahi" accuses France of forgetting the spirit of the Franco-Japanese understanding of 1907, under which the contracting parties undertook to assure peace and security in the regions adjacent to their own territories. Japan, therefore, the newspaper argues, is entitled to a trog hand in. Hainan.—Reuter.
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