"Tokyo, Feb. 22 French reports alleging. that the Japanese naval air force in China ras ering in disregard of instruc~ fom Tokyo when bombing the Yunnan Railway were categorically denied by Rear-Admiral Masx0 Kanazawa, spokesman for the Navy. Ministry in his weekly press" inter= taken by: the Japanese fir force ayainst the' railway, one of the major arms supply routes. for the Chungking, regime, had followed full eonsulta~ ion with the authorities in "Tokyo, Rear-Admiral Kanazawa pointed out that the " allegation thatthe raids on the "railway constituted lence of lack of discipline among While the Japanese authorities had hot yet boon officially advised that effect, the spokesman, said believed that Mr. Nelson 'T, John son, American Ambassador to China, had already arrived in Kunming, the western terminus of the Yunnan Railway. Rear-Admiral Kanazawa said he understood that the envoy had left Hanot on February 20 for Yunnan, had been in opera tion between the various points of the railway destroyed by Japanese bombing attacks, the spokesman sad fu the basis of information reach ing Tokyo. Mr, Johnson, he added, possibly may have been compelled to walk some distance between the Interrupted sections—Domei, Thai Envoy in London Dies Suddenly London, Feb. 22.
Thai Mi ister ty the Court of St ildenly, died today" from ick. The envoy represented his country in London since November 1, 1933—Reuter,
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