Tokyo, Dec. 8 Japanese Navy authorities are gravely concerned" over the continued shipment of arms and smmunition into China through French Indo-China and are keeping close watch on ihe situation, a spokesman of the Navy Ministry seid today.
Declaring that arms transit through Indo-China was "definitely established by indisputable information," the spokesman claimed that France was responding to China's appeal for increased shipments of arms.
Four routes were said being used for this purpose, one by railway from Hanoi to Yunnanfu, another raid route from Hanoi to Lungchow in Kwangsi province, a third by waterway from Haiphong to Tongking, and the fourth by highway from Chine-gar to Pzkhoi.
The spokesman pointed out that since the fall of Canton, French Indo-
China had become the principal artery of China's arms supplies.
Trans-shipment of arms was also being carried on from Hongkong to Pakhoi and to the French leased territory of Kwangchowwan, the spokesman said—Domei.
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