Political circles declare that Tokyo referred to these activities as an exceptional act of indiscipline towards the central authorities, and ex. press deep surprise that this indiscipline should persist after Tokyo was informed of it.
These quarters add that the French Ambassador had stressed the interest of France and other countries in the Yunnan railway, which is the only access to Central China. The United States Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Joseph C. Grew, had also been instructed to lodge a protest on the same incidents on behalf of the Government, because' the Yunnan rat way carries large quantities of American goods and 15 also, for American officials in Chunking, the only means of communication with the outside world. This protest had just been lodged when the incident of two days ago occurred.—Havas.
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