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HOLDING UP OF S
HUNDREDS OF
TRUCKS IDLE AT HAIPHONG
Haiphong, French Indo-China.
Hundreds of new American motor trucks, standing idle, and rusting, in vacant fields and back- lots, provide the first answer, here to the question whether China is receiving military supplies through French Indo-China, now that the communi- cation link via Hong Kong and Canton is com- pletely and thoroughly severed.
Reliable estimates place the number of these trucks at over a thousand. They represent money
the Chinese government.
and from all leading stores & compradores good, hard cash paid over to American firms by
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Figure it on an average of $1,000 per truck, and you have the neat figure of $1,000,000 lying idle.
And the fact that these trucks are not being moved is part of the insistent French denial that China is being fed with war supplies from here. The Japan- ese say different. The French point to the trucks, and in China to-day the truck is a necèssity of
war.
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To what extent war supplies could be or are being "smuggl ed" through French-Indo-China is another question, but even here, in the matter of machineguns labelled as soap and rifles as can- ned goods, thé
nan preponderant neutral opinion is that the French have. clamped down hard.
,
As firm as the French denial, It is reported that a limited however, is Japanese insistence number of trucks are being per- that China, with traffic through mitted transport into China" for Canton stopped, is utilizing "commercial purposes," and it is French Indo-China as an arms further reported that French-made route. In his address to the trucks have been given a virtual Japanese Diet on January 21, monopoly in this direction, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita. through imposition of a. U. S. declared: $720 tax on non-French trucks "As regards the reported con- by the Indo-China authorities. | veyance of arms through French But this sort of thing, it is argu- Indo-China and other territories, ed, comes under the simple head- ing of colonial preferences.
The say that the Chinese are resentful over this state of affairs is to put it mildly. After the free traffic in arms through Hong Kong the restrictions of this Indo- China route are irritating to the Chinese.
the Japanese government have from time to time called the at- tention of the government con- cerned to the matter; and when necessary, proper steps will be taken."
And the threat of "proper steps" by Japan is not new in this connection. Neither is Chinese re- And investigation, assentment over French refusal to far as it can be carried out, bears permit legitimate and open deal. out the French denial that the ing in munitions through French route here is open. There may be | Indo-China. Which leaves at a trickling of war supplies, but least a small question mark, neutral observers of all sorts, in- cluding foreign military attaches, are of the opinion”, that there is |-- no legitimate traffic in arms. What is this “armis route" in- French officials, from top to bót- volved in this dispute. Basically, tom, get highly excited in their it is the narrow-gauge railroad denials.`
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