Nanking, Sept. 24.
That the Japanese advance into French Indo-China at midnight on Sunday was in full accordance with the terms of the Franco-Japanese agreement concluded on Sunday afternoon, was stressed in a communique issued yesterday by the headquarters of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China.
The communique stressed that efforts of Chungking, in connection with the Franco-Japanese negotiations, to alienate Japan from France, Thailand, and Germeny, or to bring about British intervention, have ended in failure.
It added that the Chungking Regime, which has been vainly advocating a war of resistance, as well as the Chinese merchants who have Japan May Be Asked to Close Davao Consulate
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