Peiping, July 17.
Closure of the Paiho, the river proach to Tientsin, was being studied by the Japanese fnilitary authorities here today on the grounds that the waterway now was serving as the sole route for the transportation of supplies to the forces operating under Jorders of Gen, Chiang Kai-shek in North China, British vessels plying on the Pai River were alleged to be engaged in the transportation of such supplies.
Japanese military circles today said that they did not intend to relax the Jmeasures for the questioning of passersby and the searching of vehi cles in Tientsin because of the open-ling of the Tokyo negotiations.
These they asserted would be broken off in the event that Britain refused to abandon her policy of assisting Gon. Chiang Kai-shek and of placing obstacles in the creation of a new order in East Asia—Domel.
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