THE CHILL MAIL, PWBRUARY 5, 1840
FRENCH PROTEST AGAINST YUNNAN RAILWAY BOMBING
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Paris, To-day. IT IS OFFICIALLY announced that during yester- day's audience, M. Daladier informed the Ja- panese Ambassador of the French stand as re- gards the Yunnan railway. Exchanges of views are being pursued between Japan and France. Meanwhile, Washington's intervention in Tokyo has made an excellent impression in Paris, as it con- firms the French view that the Yunnan railway is a commercial line of common interest for all the nations of the world.-Havas. Japanese Persist In
protested against previous bombings and while negotiations between diplo- mats were following their normal
course.
News Canard (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
TOKYO'S RESPONSIBILITY PARIS, TO-DAY, AUTHORIZED CIRCLES ARE EX- relations with Japan and Intends to "France has always had friendly TREMELY SURPRISED THAT CERTAIN SEMI-OFFICIAL JAPAN- | Tokyo will impose on its military the A maintain them, but she expects that ESE NEWS AGENCY DEEMED. IT | observance of international ADVISABLE TO INCLUDE IN ONE and respect
treaties OF ITS BROADCASTS A "NEWS REPORT" PUBLISHED IN ONE OF THE TOKYO NEWSPAPERS IMMEDIATELY DENIED IN PARIS. world."-Havas.
The report asserted that France had concluded with Chungking a secret treaty for supplying Chungking with arms and ammunition via the Yunnan railway.
for innocent travellers, and the technical the integrity of France's possessions marvels built by AND | Frenchmen and admired by the whole
CAMPAIGN AGAINST T.B.
The director of
Dr. con-
Authorised circles here once more assert that the report is absolutely groundless and wonder whether the publicity given to it does not stitute a belated attempt to justify the murderous bombings of Japanese, aviators on February 2.-Havas,
Medical Services, Selwyn-Clarke, in a series of broadcast talks roused the Colony to the danger of this scourge and made many recommendations with a view to preventing and curing the disease. Like cholera and smallpox, tub-r- culosis is largely a poverty disease.
French Comment (SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL") It is nature's drastic method of thin- Paris, To-day. ning out the population, when it ex- Many French papers comment onceeds the means of subsistence. the bombing of the Yunnan railway, indicates bad housing, unemployment T expressing shocked surprise at the under-nourishment, want of fresh air, attack.
and lack of education.
The "Paris Soir" writes:-"France While medical aid is valuable, the gave Japan formal assurances regard-real problem is concerned more with ing the traffic of war material to social conditions. The menace of the China and Tokyo knows that these
disease is intensifled by the influx of arc strictly observed.some half million or more refugees, Nothing can justify the attacks by the who have made the housing problem Japanese aviators.
still more acute than it was.
assurarices
"After the reinforcement of the blockade of the Tientsin `conces- sions, the bombing of the Yunnan railway appears to many to be an action calculated by certain mill- táry elements to counteract the concillatory policies of the new Japanese Cabinet.
When housing is so scarce and so expensive, because of building costs, and rents are so high it means that a disproportionate amount of the scanty wages has to be spent on rent, and so the quantity and quality of food suffers.
The tuberculosis problem raises the "Friday's bombing came after the whole question of social betterment. French Ambassador to Tokyo had I-“St. John's Review,"
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