Japanese airmen on Friday, appears to many as an act "calculated by certain military elements to counter-act the conciliatory policy of the new Japanese Cabinet," the "Paris Soir" commented this evening.
France has given Japan formal assurances regarding traffic in war material along this railway line and Tokyo knows they are strictly observed," the newspaper stated.
"Nothing can justify the attacks carried out by Japanese aviators.
"The French Ambassador to Tokyo, M. Arsene' Henry, had. protested against attack on the Yunnan Railway and negotiations with the Japanese Foreign Ofice were following a ""Atler renewal of the blockade of the Tientsin Concessions, the railway bombing appears to many to have Yer calculated by certain military elements to counter-aet the coneili tory. policy of the new Cabinet.
"France has always enjoyed amicable relations with Japan. She desires to maintain them. But France also. expects Tokyo to impose on its military respect of innocent travellers, of international treaties and of the
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