Tokyo, Feb. 16.
Britain is negotiating' a secret military agreement with Chungking, a despatch from Bangkok in the "Yomiuri" said today.
The agreement is designed to maintain British influence in the Far East, the Bangkok correspondent said, and to obstruct Japan's southward advance, Britain decided to restrain Japan through ce-operation with Thailand, the correspondent also said, because Britain interpreted Japanese medlar tion of the Thai-French Indo-China dispute as Thailand's adherence to Japan's. "East Asia Ca-Prosperity Sphere."
The alleged agreement includes establishment of a Chungking-Singa~ pore joitit defence line against Japan's southward moves and increased American munition supplies to Chungking via the Burma road, the correspondent said.
Meanwhile, a "Nichi Nichi" desese—Turkish patch from Bangkok reported that Britain was concentrating 20,000 troops on the Malay and Burma borders as a threat to-Thailand in a manœuvre to destroy friendly relations between Japan and Thailand—United Press.
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