louey for Chungking $30,000,000 Collected in South Sea:
Chungking, Feb. 9.
Over $30,000,000 has been contributed by Chinese in the South Seas in support of the Chinese Government in the war of resistance during his trip, declared Gen. Wu Teh-chen, Minister for Overseas of the Central Kuomintang, who returned to Chungking yesterday morning by air from Hongkong. He has been away five months, visiting over 100 South Seas ports and delivering over 300 speeches.
Amor g the places visited by the General ere the Philippines, Dutch East Indies, the Malay States and Burma. After a short rest, Gen. Wu Teh-chen expresses the hope that he will be able in the near future to take another trip to the south, visiting French Indo-China, Thailand, India, Borneo and other countries in the Southern Paaific.—Reuter The State Department yesterday declined to comment. on reports from Vichy that the refusal of the US to allow shipments of warplanes to French Indo-China was a factor in inducing French acceptance of Javanese mediation The report was a "complete fabrication," other informed sources said, No formal request ever was made for permission to ship war material to Indo-China, they added.
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