ANTI-BRITISH MOVE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 7

ANTI-BRITISH MOVE

JAPANESE LEGISLATORS. INDO-CHINA TENSION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received August 9, 9 a.m. TOKIO, Aug. 8. One liundred aud twenty-six members of the House of Representatives (which comprises a total of 466 members) Rave passed a resolution '"'demanding that the Government take a determined stand toward Britain as well as effective measures to exterminate British influences in East Asia.”

A Hong Kong message reports that a French traveller from Hanoi states a Japanese mission has presented ViceAdmiral Decoux (Cornmander-in-Cmci of the French Far Eastern forces) with a memorandum covering the “co-opera-tion” Japan expects. Simultaneously it is learned that the Chinese are massing troops on the Indochina frontier for a push to Hanoi if the Japanese seize the Haiphong railway for troop movements. At Chungking the military spokesman said the movements of Indo-Chi-nese troops on the Kwangsi border indicate that they are preparing to resist a possible Japanese invasion.