Negotiations between the.authorit-Hongkong, Sept. 10. fes in French' Indo-China and Major-General Nishihara, head of the Japanese mission to Indo-China, "are continuing, itis learned from a usual-reliable soures..
Admiral Decoux, Governor, French Indo-China, is stated to have. submitted counter-proposals to Japfanese demands for the passage of troops through Indo-China to the Chinese border. After which Gen Nishihara is said to have forwarded the counter-proposals to Tokyo. for understood that to land and the area int which they vay conduct military operations and the points to be used as air bases.
Commenting upon these reports Chinese circles declare that they are confident that the Chinese military authorities have already completed careful preparations to deal with all such eventualities. 'They express the opinion, however, that if Indo-China to Japanese landing in Tndohowever "limited the arca of] operations may technically be, #t will gradually become impossible' to re-Strict "Japanese armed movements, with the result that all semblance of Indo-China's independence will be seriously: threatened—Reuter.
Talks to be Resumed Hanoi, Sept. 10.
The Franco-Japanese talks here! have been borged down since Saturday morning, but they were expected {to become normal again today.
The renewal of the talks, it was gon-rally believed, depends on orders from Tokyo which would be guided by the effects in the Far East Fesult-Ing from the German action Europe—United Press.
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