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Increased shipments of French munitions to China, through French Indo-China, since June were reported here today in unofficial but reliable dispatches.
Extensive precautions, including a ban against photography in Haiphong and orders that all unloading of munitions be done at night, have been taken by the French authorities in order to assure comparative secrecy, the reports said.
Most munitions of French origin, the dispatches continued, were now being landed at the Songkoi, or Red River, delta, whence they were transported in Chinese vessels to Haiphong for routing to Yunnan or Kwangsi. All these operations were being carried on at night.
Some shipments are carried by boat directly from the Songkoi delta to Tienyen near the Kwangsi border, according to these reports.
Included among recent deliveries to China were 40 Dewoitine fighter aeroplanes, a large number of tanks, Nand large quantities of machine-guns, the reports alleged.—Domei.
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