AGREEMENT ENDS.
UNDERSTANDING NOT FULFILLED.
HONG KONG ROAD MAY OPEN.
(Received This J)ay, 11.30 a.m.) - LONDON, October 17.
The three month’s period of the operation of the agreement Avith Japan for the closing of the Burma Road for the passage of arms and supplies to China expires at mid-night, and as the understanding that the jieriod Avould be used for exploring means of reaching a peaceful f settlement of the hostilities in China, has not been fulfilled the Road noAV reopens to traffic. With regard to the route by which: supplies formerly reached China via Hong Kong, an assurance was given to Japan at the time of the conclusion of the Burma Road agreement that the decision for its closure taken by the Governor of Hong Kong many months earlier would be respected. , This assurance lapses Avith the Burma road agreement. In fact, owing to the dispositions .of , Japanese, .land and- sea forces, the Hong Kong road is uoavof little practical importance, hut the assurance referred; to having' lapsed, the obligation regarding its closure is removed dnd it remains for the Governor of Hong Kong to decide, in the light of local circumstances, whether it should be reopened, '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 6, 18 October 1940, Page 5
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