Tokyo, Feb. 5.
Eugene H, Dooman, Counsellor for the United States, handed the Foreign Office a memorandum on February 1 containing] "very many legalistic points," it was revealed by Mr. Y. Suma, Foreign Office spokesman at a press conference here. The note is said to concern the interruption of American commerce along the Yunnan railway by Japanese bombing.
The United States deems the railway a main line of communication with Chungking, where are at present many American residents, the communication is reported to have added. Mr, Suma stated that the memorandum needed careful study before a reply could be made.
Japanese forces have no intention of bombing non-combatants, he declared, "We believe our military forces are carrying out their' actions with the greatest of care, The Japanese Government fully endorses the action which was taken against the railway."
A recent despatch from the Japan: ese Ambassador to France, after interview with M. Edouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, showed that France was prepared t0 give no response to Japanese desire regarding trafic on the Yunnan railway, the spokes mary added.—Reuter.
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