ARMS FOR CHINA
TRANSPORT OVER BURMA ROAD BRITISH REPLY HANDED TO JAPAN. SAID TO BE REGARDED AS UNSATISFACTORY. The British reply to Japan’s demands regarding the supply of arms to China has been handed over at Tokio by the British Ambassador (Sir R. Craigie), Daventry reports. The Japanese Foreign Minister is said to have expressed his dissatisfaction, and to have urged that the reply should be reconsidered. RUSSIAN AID QUESTION OF TOKIO PROTEST. TOKIO, July 8. The spokesman of the War Office, Mr Suma, denied that the Government is discriminating between Britain and Russia regarding the Burma protest, to which a reply is now expected in a day or two. He added: “When and how the Japanese Government would protest to the Soviet regarding the transport of arms to Chungking we cannot say at present.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1940, Page 5
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135ARMS FOR CHINA Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1940, Page 5
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