JAPS. WILL BOMB FRENCH RAILWAY.
SINISTER THREAT.
Munitions For China Being
Transported.
BOUGHT FROM GERMANY.
United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 10. The Shanghai correspondent of the "New York Times," Mr. Hallett Abend, says the Japanese Army and Xavy have demanded that munitions shipments over the French-owned Haiphong-Yunnan -railway into Kunming, must cease within a fortnight, ending January 23 or bombers will destroy every railway bridge between Kunming and the Indo-China border. The French authorities last week asked a cessation of bombing of the railway within Chinese borders. It is understood they told the Japnuese that enough arms and munitions had been landed at Indo-Chinese ports to tax the railway's capacity for the next two months. China bought the materials from Germany on a barter agreement before the outbreak of the European war, therefore they were not subject to seizure.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1940, Page 7
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