WANTED BY JAPAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 8

WANTED BY JAPAN

ALLIED CO-OPERATION

BROADER ISSUES THAN AT TIENTSIN

ARMS TRADE STOPPED

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyrlcht.) (Received June 21, 9 a.m.) TOKIO, June 20. It is officially announced that the blockade of Tientsin has been ended, to be resumed "if there is imperative heed." An official of the Foreign Office said that the blockade had been an impediment. to the settlement of questions of a broader and more urgent character. There were many matters in which Japan wanted the co-operation of Britain and France. Thousands of people in Tientsin wtetched the barbed-wire barricades of the Japanese blockade being removed for the first time for 371 days. Lieu-tenant-General Homma issued a warning that the lifting of the blockade was a trial measure. At Chungking the army spokesman announced that the Chinese recaptured Shansi last night. He added the Government did not anticipate an attack on Indo-China, as Japan was too exhausted. He said it was believed that there were only 3000 marines in Hainan and one destroyer, one gunboat, and seven transports,* which were carrying railway materials. It is officially announced that France has acceded to Japan's demands regarding Indo-China and has agreed to allow Japanese inspectors to enter Indo-China to ensure that the traffic in munitions to the Chungking Government is stopped.