Paris, Feb. 7.
France is determined to seck a solution to the bombings of the Prench-owned Yunnan Railway by Japanese planes by diplomatic methods, it was authoritatively learned here yesterday.
Regarding future events, the newspaper, "Lo Temps." declared that "France possesses rights which must bbe respected, and one may be assured she knows how to defend them by The newspaper deprecated Japanese reports that the railroad has been used {to supply Generalissimo Chi Kai-shek with weapons, or that 2 scerct agreement exists between France and the Chungking Government.
Apropos of the Japanese ponouncement that the bombings were dictated exclusively by military considerations, "Lo Temps" said, "These declarations of the (apanese) Foreign Ministry spokesman can in mo wise be considered as implying a satisfactory ox. planation of the incident itself. More-Over, it cannot be accepted as equiva Tent to a clear, precise answer by the Tokyo Government to the French.
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