"Japanese Official Repeats Old Charges Tokyo, Nov. 25.
Transhipment of munitions bound for China under cover of night from steamers of Jardine, Matheson & Ca. and the Messageries Maritimes to waiting junks off the port of Haiphong, is still going on, Mr. Ushio Munemura, former Japanese Consul-General at Henoi, declared in a press interview to the "Kokumin Shimbun" today.
Mr. Munemura, who recently returned here, said that these operations had been actively carried on since April. The arms and munitions thus transferred, he said, were taken to Mongkai and Tongking to be transported by rail to Kwangsi and Kunming.
These shipments were carried on in "open disregard" to Japanese protests under the surveillance of Annamite guards of the French-Indo-China Government, Mr. Munemura was reported by the newspaper to have declared.
Large quantities of munitions, including aeroplanes, were said to be unloaded at various points centring at Haiphong for shipment on the Yunnan Reilway to Kunming or Langson. From these points the goods were being taken on motor lorries into the Kwangsi province.
All of these activities were usually carried out during the night, leaving no trace during the day, Mr. Munemura was reported to have said.—
Domei.
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