SUPPLIES FOR CHINA
SHOULD THEY BE SUNK?
(Received February 6, 11 a.m.) LONDON, February 5. A Tokio message says that the Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, replying to a question by a member of the House Budget. Committee, as to whether a settlement of hostilities between Japan and China would not be expedited if ships carrying supplies to Chungking were sunk, said, "The GovI ernment is actually invoking belj ligerent rights within the score of necessity, but complete invocation is at present under consideration." The Canton correspondent of the Dbmei news agency reports that Japanese troops which were landed south-east of Waichow this morning have entered Tamsui, a key point on the Mil's Bay route. Japanese units which were stationed along the ■ Chinese-British frontier on the border of the Kowloon leased territory have | begun moving to cut the Chinese retreat.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 9
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