"Tokyo, June 28.
The second party of Japanese officials comprising clerks of the Foreign Office and army officers, who will supervise the prohibition by the French Indo-China authorities of the transportation of war supplies to the Chiang Kai-shek regime, left here at 1030 o'clock this morning by train en route to Hanoi.
Meanwhile, the first group headed by Major-General Issagu Nishihara which left the Akeno airfield, Miye Prefecture, this morning arrived at Fukuoka at 11.30 o'clock and immediately left for Taihoku, Formosa, in three planes, according to reports reaching here from Fukuoka.
will stay overnight at Taihoku and hop off for Hanoi tomorrow morning.—Domei.
Understanding Unaltered Tokyo, June 28.
On the strength of an assurance given by the French Ambassador, M. Arsene Henry, yesterday afternoon, the understanding between Japan and France in regard to French Indo-China will remain unaltered, despite the change in the Governor-General of Indo-China, the spokesman of the Foreign Office declared at a press conference here this morning.
The French Ambassador called on Mr. Masayuki Tani, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, at 5 p.m. yesterday, and assured him that the change it the Governor-General of French Indo-China, as decided by the French Government at Bordeaux on June 25, would never alter the understanding reached between Japan and France regarding Indo-China, according to the spokesman.
Questioned regarding a press report in Hongkong, that trouble might possibly start between Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, the Governor-General appointed by the Bordeaux government, and the retiring Governor-General General Catroux, who is reported to have pledged allegiance to the National Committee organized in London by General de Gaulle, the spokesman reiterated: "In our eyes, there is only one Government of France, and that has been transferred from Paris to Bordeaux."—Reuter.
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