Terms of Agreement Disclosed
FRENCH TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY RESPECTED Received Friday, Midnight. TOKIO, Sept. 27. The Foreign Office has released a joint French-Japanese communique relative to the Indo-China agreement under which the Japanese Government has given the French Government an assurance that it will respect the rights and interests of France in East Asia especially tho territorial integrity of French Indo-China and French sovereignty over all parts of the Union of Indo-China, while tho French Government agreed to afford tho Japanese Army and Navy special facilities which are necessary for the prosecution of the latter’s military operations. A Chungking message says minor clashes are taking place between the Chinese and Japanese forces on the Kwangsi-Indo-China border. It was reported from Kwangsi Province in South China that the Japanese casualties were 1000 in the Dong Dang clash.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 230, 28 September 1940, Page 7
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