The Archive · 1940

Official Statement Soon

Tokyo, Sept. 5.

The Foreign Office has no details of the Indo-China negotiations, but General Nishihara, head of the Japanese mission to Indo-China, has "rather wide discretion" in conducting talks, said the Foreign Office spokesman, Mr. Yakichiro Suma, today at the press conference. -The spokesman was aware of impressions abroad that an ulti had been delivered, but he ce: them "rather questionable". The spokesman revealed that an official statement on the Indo-China situation will be made in Tokyo very soon.

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