The Indo-China Government, in an oficial communique, charged that the Canton Army had Inunched the attack after having been formally told of the signing of the agreement between the French and Japanese in Hanoi, Gen. Nishihara sent his personal emissaries by plane to Canton. with the notification of the agreement yesterday afternoon, When he learned of the border clashes last night, he sent a second group of emissaries to Canton.
'The French population was some~ what aroused by the news of the Japanese attack which, they charged, had broken the terms' of the agree: ment signed yesterday.
Some observers speculated whether new negotiations might not, start ox result of the Japanese action,
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