Charges that the Chinese were transporting munitions from Canton to Hankow by increasing the number of freight cars attached to passenger trains carrying nationals of third Powers were levelled at the Hankow Government yesterday in an official note addressed to the Diplomatic Corps by Mr. Masayuki Tani Japanese Minister at large in Shanghai, The Japanese envoy requested his neutral colleagues to make representations to the Hankow Government for the cessation of such alleged unscrupulous practices.
The note pointed out that "while the Japanese forces feel constrained to stop by aerial bombing or some other means such transportation of Chinese war supplies, the Japanese Government are ardently desirous of avoiding incidental losses ana damages from being caused to third Power nationals,"
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