Bangkok, Nov. 17.
Officials today emphatically denied Japanese reports that Thailand forces had entered French Indo-China and that a war had broken out between the two countries. They said that the border situation remained unchanged.
Officials said that French planes "daily" have been violating the Thai frontier and that the French flew ove-the frontier yesterday and this morning. However, there has been no incident, officials said.
The tension between the two countries noticeably was increasing, but officials were silent as to their next move.—United Press.
All those aboard a Carlowitz Company's steamer the Chinese name of which is the s. Mow Fu, which was detained by the Japanese off the Chekiang coast early in the month, are suffering from shortage of food and exposure and have cabled to Shanghai for help, states the "Shun Pao." Representatives of the firm here are reported to have gone to their rescue aboard a Japanese steamer.
Agents of the company in Chusan have also been asked to offer a helping hand, while the German Consul-General in Shanghai is said to have been asked to make further representations to the Japanese, so that the ship may be released at an early date. Excepting mail, all other goods aboard the detained vessel are forbidden to be moved but food is running short, the report states.
Two other German-owned steamers are said to be also detained off Chusan by the Japanese. When the company here cabled them for information the cables were returned, the report alleges. Several other foreign-owned ships are said to be detained, but no details are given. The same paper reports that the American Consul-General here 1s still. awaiting a reply from the Japanese to his protest against the detention of the s. Tasang off the Chekiang coast a week ago.
It will be recalled in this connection that a few days ago, Chinese reports stated that all major as well as minor coastal districts in Chekiang were again closed to shipping. The Japanese Commissioner of the Customs in Shanghai was said to have refused to grant Customs papers to ships destined for those places.
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