Tokyo, Sept. 21.
Mr, Ishiro Kobayashi, manager of tne"bar 'Basler News "AgOnty, Sapanese enterprise at Singapore, Was released there today afler several weeks' detention, according to reports Oficial statements here, however, denied that Japan had delivered ant ultimatum to the Indo-China authorlties, preferring to call the Japanese note a "strong invitation to end the negotiations very soon."
French officials here declined to comment on the departure from Hanoi of Maj.. Gen, Issaku Nishihar: head of the Japanese military mission to Indo-China. They indicated, how. ever, that a deadlock in the Hanoi negotiations was i natural development in view of Japan's expanded demands.
The Vichy Government informed Japan yesterday that it was equally anxious to terminate the Hanoi negotations, but again, emphasized that Aim, Mal Hwan-clang, member of the Control Yuan, died in Chungking. on September 14, following a period Hines, a Chungking report to the sin Wan Pao" reveals, Mr. Mal had served with the Control Yuan since 1938. Mr. Koo Kuei-hsun, head of the Department of Agriculture of the Lingnan University, died in, Shao kwan, North Kwangtung, on September 15, states another report to the same paper. Mr. Koo recently left Hongkong for Shackwan on sick leave, it is learned,
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