Tokyo, Jan. 12.
Japan has sent France a virtual ultimatum demanding that shipments of munitions over the French owned Yunnan Railway cease within the fortnight ending January 23, The note warned that Japanese planes would bomb every bridge on the railway between Kunming and the Indo-China frontier unless the shipment of arms to Chungking over the Yunnan railway ceased.
Che Japanese note was handed to the French Ambassador here this week during conversations regarding French aid to the Chungking Government.
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