Tokyo, Sept. 22.
Supplies for Chungking are now being sent via Vladivostok, along the Siberian Railway and the North-west Highway to the Chinese wartime capita the "Nichi Nichi" discloses in a despatch declaring:
"The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union are collaborating in efforts to cause the Chungking regime to continue resistance against Japan by inaugurating a Vladivostok supply route.
"Financing." the Japanese newspaper says, "would be aided by employment of the newly-concluded U.S$135,000,000 loan by the United States to Chunking."
Use of the long, round-about Vladivostok route, the "Nichi Nichi" states, was foreed on Chungking because the Indo-China and Burma routes have been closed since early this summer.
Important parleys were held at Chungking between the Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Chung-hui, and the Soviet Ambassador after September 8 the newspaper adds. And these talks came to a close a few days ago, when the two parties agreed that half of the U.S.$135,000,000 loan should be used for the purchase and transport of supplies via Vladivostok.
Both the British and American Ambassadors to China, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr and Mr. Nelson Johnson respectively. were kept informed of the Sino-Soviet conversations, the "Nichi Nichi" says.
Final decision in the Sino-Soviet been spending approximately: $4,500,- 000, annually on military preparations.
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