Linking Japanese bombings of the Yunnan Railway to the question of landing facilities for Japanese airliners on a proposed Tokyo-Bangkok line in Indo-China, the French authorities have blocked plans for the inauguration of the airline by withholding authorization to the Japan Airways Company to use the Hanoi aerodrome, it was revealed here yesterday.
Under an agreement concluded on November 30 last year between the Japanese and the Thai governments, regular aerial traffic was scheduled to open early in February between Tokyo and Bangkok, a Government spokesman declared before a budgetary sub-committee meeting of the Lower House.
A tentative schedule, whereby Japanese airliners would make an overnight stop-over at Hanoi, was prepared, but negotiations with the French authorities on the question ran into gifüculties when the French brought up the question of the bombings of the Yunnan Railway.
Discussions were still proceeding with the French authorities, the spokesman stated.—Domei,
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