INDO-CHINA’S FATE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 251, 20 September 1940, Page 8

INDO-CHINA’S FATE

NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE

AVAR SHIPS’ ROLE

(United Tress Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 1.10 p.m.) VICHY, sept. 19. The Foreign Minister (M. Baudouin) told American newspapermen that France, “all alone” in the Far East, should not bo judged too severely if her decisions did not please the Western world. France understood that real support could not be expected from America in the event of the Japanese attacking lndo-China. He added that Franco would henceforth remain silent regarding Britain. A Hanoi message says a French communique states; “The negotiations have now reached a delicate phase. The Japanese have presented new demands incompatible with the instructions from Vichy and tlio previous agreement.” A Chungking says the French radio station at Saigon has announced . that the French 'and Japanese negotiations at Hanoi are being continued regarding the execution of a- diplomatic agreement, which has already been reached. Jn Shanghai American, British, and French quarters strongly report that the six French warships which recently passed Gibraltar arc en _ route to indo : China in accordance with a reported Anglo-French agreement to maintain Indo-China’s status quo. Tlic Associated Press’s Hanoi correspondent says the Japanese spokesman has announced that all Japanese civilian nationals in lndo-China are being removed by special trains, beginning on September 20 before the prospective arrival of Japanese troops. Tokio reports that the Chinese have seized control of the section of the French-owned Yunnan railway in Chinese territory.