Chungking, Sept. 23.
"China had plenty of time to prepare for this eventuality and our actions will proceed smoothly according to a pre-arranged plan," declared a Chinese spokesman commenting on the Franco-Japanese agreement on Indo-China. act details and the number of Chinese troops concentrated in Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces bordering Indo-China have not been divulged, but it is estimated that 200,000 men are massed along the border ready to resist any Japanese advance towards Kunming, capital of Yunn:
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