Negotiations between Japan and) Britain to assure adequate food supplies for Hongkong have begun Canton, the Japanese Consul General disclosed here today, He stated that the British Consul, Me, A. P. Blunt, was negotiating with Japanese authorities in. Canton, fand indicated the Japanese "prob ably would permit foodstuffs to} each Hongkong from the interior.
'The Japanese Consul General' said the Japanese were not blockad~ ing Hongkong, but "merely severing communications" between "Hongkong and the interior, He said there was. no question of a sea blockade against Hongkong Eight American women and a number of French, Czech and Russian refugees will sail from here fon a Japanese ship on Friday for Shanghai, No Japanese have yet Hongkong, July 2.
'A. special Imperial Airways plane evacuated the families of Imperial Airways employees to Bangkok this afternoon, ay leading British shipping companies began the evacuation of Employees' families to Singapore, Meanwhile, the "Hongkong Tete raph" reported. that 2,000 Japanese (cops were concentrated at Shum= chu, where Japanese Military authorliies were said to be conscripting male and female labour for the construction of a highway to Namtau The highway was destroyed during recent floods.
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