Paris, Feb. 12.
The Franco-Japanese trade pact probably will be permitted to la on March 15 because negotiations for a new pact between the two couniries have been suspended, it was disclosed last night.
Negotiations for a new'trade agreement between the two countries were suspended because of the French ban on exports of war materials to Japan in retaliation for the Japanese ban against the import of luxury articles into Japan from France.
Japan's failure to explain the bombing of the French owned Yunnan Railway to France's satisfaction was another factor leading to the suspension of negotiations, it was learned.
Trade between Japan and France has almost ceased since the outbreak of the European war, Only small amounts of Indo-China coal, rice and iron are being sold to Japan in exchange for raw silk, camphor and canned fish.—United Press.
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