BORDER TENSION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 236, 4 October 1940, Page 7

BORDER TENSION.

JAPANESE REPORT.

Thailand Planes Reconnoitre

Indo-China Front.

(Reed. 12.30 p.m.)

LONDON, Oct., 3

The Bangkok correspondent of the Tokyo newspaper? "Yoffiiuri" says there is tension on the ThailatttUndoChina border.

Fifty Thai planes on Tuesday reconnoitred the north-eastern border.

The Thai Government has warned against trips to Indo-China at present. The correspondent said the Government ie pressing Vichj to dispatch authorities to demarc the border.

The Japanese Emperor has approved of the Cabinet's appointments of the following ten Cabinet councillors :*— General Senjuro Hayashi and Admiral Kivokaan Abo, representing the military; ChUji Machida, JTUsanosake. Kuhara, Chikuhei Nakajima and Keneo Adachi, the political world j Seinosuke Gob. and Seihin Ikeda, industrialists; Ka£me Shoda, Government circles; and Kozue Ohtani, the religious world.

The Prime Minister, Prince' Konoye, originally planned to abolish the council. However, he reconsidered it in the belief that a "well balanced" selection would assist in the establishment of the new political structure.

General Hajime Sugiyama, at present a member of the Supreme War Council, has been appointed Chief of the General Staff. He replaces Field-Marshal Prince Kotohito, who " *s resigned, as he believes that he has accomplished his taek.

Prince Kotohito said the Chinese war would reach its final stage with the early establishment of a new domestic national structure. Hu assured Japan that she was now in a stronger position to construct the new order.