Tokyo, Feb. 5.
Representations by the United States to the Japanese Government (protesting against the bombing of the Yunnan Railway, supply route from French Indo-China to the Chungking Government, were filed on Thursday, 'a spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Office declared today.
He declared that the American representations were being studied by the Japanese Government. The protest, he added, was two-pointed. The first, "he said, concerns American goods being transported over the rail-Toad. The second referred to the serious inconvenience that many American rationals still remaining in Chungking were undergoing because the railway. was the only means of communication between Chungking and the outside world.
The spokesman asserted that the bombing of the Yunnan Railway had been and was being carried out be-
Paris, Feb, 4.
French authoritative quarters today expressed "extreme surprise" that the semi-oficial Japanese news agency should think it advisable to publish a report, previously denied by French authorities, about an alleged agreement between Paris and Chungking for the supply of arms and munitions to China via the Indo China-Yunnan Railway.
"The report has already been published locally.
"The report, it was pointed out, was published bya Tokyo newspaper and Immediately denied by the French authorities," Meafiemia, that the al-Tegations in the despatch constitute "untruthful statement," the authoritative quarters declared its republication by the news agency lod them to wonder whether it was not a belated attempt to try and justify the February 2 bombing of the Yunnan railway tine.
the bombing, it was stated, at present is the object of official representations by the French Government to the Japanese Government.
Authoritative quarters emphasized, moreover, that just before the bombing on Friday, the United States Government had called the Gaimusho's attention to. the damage accruing to American rights and interests from riy attack on the Yunnan lino, which {san international roadway" into China.
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