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...China depended for her small arms, machine guns and ammunition mainly on what she was able to buy in Europe. Most of this landed at British Hong Kong, was shipped via the Canton-Hankow railway, both ends of which are now in Japanese hands. The rest came via French Indo-China, and Tokyo last week demanded that Paris stop that (see below...
Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye last week cried accusingly at French Ambassador Charles Arsène-Henry: "The most important route left for transportation of arms to [Chinese Generalissimo] Chiang is through French Indo-China and China is now reported active there...
...King Bao-Dai of Annam, one of the states which make up French Indo-China, assured France that he and his subjects had "profound attachment and indefectible devotion to the great protector nation...
...that Japan has her hands full in China France, concerned for the safety of Indo-China, is evidently changing her original policy of trying to protect her eastern empire by currying favor with the Japanese. Consequently, in frequent brushes in Japanese-occupied Peking and Shanghai, the French have stood up to the Japanese much more firmly than the representatives of the U. S. and Britain. Fortnight ago the French again pulled Japan's nose. Last February an agreement was reached tending to facilitate payment of French commercial credits owed by Japan. Recently French creditors informed the French Foreign Office...
...France and Britain had sent a joint warning to Tokyo to keep hands off the big Chinese island of Hainan, 150 miles northeast of the Paracels and hard off the coast of China. Japanese occupation of either Hainan or the Paracels would place Japan within easy attacking distance of Indo-China, more important, would place her astride Britain's vital sea route between her strongly fortified colonies of Hong Kong and Singapore...