The Archive · 1940

No Negotiations Yet

Diplomatic negotiations hav: been started by the Japanese government with Great Britain regarding the Hongkong route, but Japan was maintaining watchful waiting policy, Mr. Yakichiro Suma, spokesmen for the Foreign Office told for-eigh correspondents at the regular press conference here today.

The spokesman declared that the Japanese government understood that the Anglo-Japanese accord for the closure of the Hongkong route still stands despite the termination of the Anglo-Japanese agreement for the closure of the Burma Road.—

Domei.

Japanese Attack Highway Again Tokyo, Oct. 21.

Japanese planes yesterday staged another attack on the Chinese side of the Burma Highway, bombing and machine-gunning a number of Chinese supply trucks, an official announcement said here to-da; The attack was the second launched hhh, of Rights ed by People

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