To Stop Agreement Violation Hanoi, Sept. 2 French authorities today appealed to Tokyo to send a plenipotentiary to Indo-C! ato halt the Japanese South China Army's continued southward advance which the French forces were not opposing.
The French made this urgent appeal after it was learned that Major-General Issaku Nishihara, head of the Japanese mission, had failed in his efforts to hold up the advance of the Japanese troops which crossed the Indo-China border at Langson from Kwangsi and wi apparently were heading for Hanoi.
Coincident with the urgent request that Tokyo intercede inthe local situation, the French Government decided to protest to the Japanese Government "against the violation of the agreement signed last Sunday as result of six Japanese planes fying over Hanoi this morning. The planes flew over this elly but did not drop any bombs.
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