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VICHY ANNOUNCES THE DEED Japan To "Defend" Indo-China Entry Of Troops FRENCH SHIPPING WARNING Reported To Have Begun Already

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UNCONFIRMED REPORTS WERE RECEIVED IN STOCKHOLM FROM BERLIN LAST NIGHT THAT JAPANESE TROOPS HAD ENTERED SOUTHERN INDO-CHINA AT SIX POINTS AND HAD OCCUPIED TWO AERODROMES.

FORBIDDEN TO LEAVE

NO-CHINA

According to travel- lers arriving in Singa- pore yesterday all French merchant shipping has been forbidden in the last four or five days to leave Indo-China har- bours. They added

no reason was given. -Reuter.

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Meanwhile, part confirmation was provided when Vichy an- nounced successful negotiations with Japan for the "defence" of Indo-China, granting Japan military facilities.

According to this announcement the negotiations were carried THAILAND on and completed in Hanoi. A Vichy spokesman said France could POLICY not defend the colony alone.

Two treaties have been drafted recognising Japan's preponder- ant role in the Far East and bestowing on Tokyo the task of main- WHICH taining peace in Indo-China. – International News Service.

Sense of gathering crisis increased this morning with a flood of messages from all quarters indicating that a forcible warning has been given to the Japanese Ambassador in Washington, and that mobilisation in Japan is proceeding to its maximum scale.

CRYPTIC PETAIN SPEECH

"We shall again per- haps have to defend our colonies," said Marshal Petain addressing stud- | ents at Aix-en-Provence Military Academy yester- day.

“IF ANY NEW ADVENTURES SHOULD EVER" BE. 'UNDER- TAKEN I HOPE WE SHALL FACE THEM WITH THE SAME ENERGY AND VIGOUR AS {WAS SHOWN IN SYRIA. -

We are obliged to protect our colonies and the whole of our Colonial Empire on which our neighbours have their eyes.

We must be able to defend it, and we must be ready........... for: al eventualities." Reuter.

“MINISTER FOR THE

GERMAN EAST"

- Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi special" ist on Eastern questions, has been chosen Minister for the German ast, according to un unconfirm ed report from the Berlin cor- respondent of the Zürich news-

arkimis. Tat. — Reuteratura).

No authoritative indication is forthcoming of the course of action likely to be pursued by Britain and the United States in the event of French accept- ance of Japan's demands, but that close contact is being maintained between the two governments is officially announced.

The Franco-Japanese talks were of opinion that in these circum- the subject of a semi-official an- stances the Japanese request to nouncement made in Vichy last take certain measures may be night but it contains no reference taken into consideration as long to a Japanese ultimatum to Indo- as the rights of France in Indo- China.

China are not encroached upon The announcement says: "The and all guarantees concerning her conversations begun in two re- sovereignty are given her." cent visits paid to Admiral Dar-| lan by the Japanese Ambas- sador, Mr. Somatau Kato, are

of the Japanese diplomatic re- presentation at Vichy.

Call-Up In Japan

continuing by an intermediary. The Japanese are carry- ing out military mobilisa- "At the same time, Admiral tion on a scale never scen Decoux, Governor-General of Indo-China, has several times re- before, according to re- ceived Major-General Sumita, ports reaching Shanghai

head of the Japanese mission.

"These interchanges of view to-day.

pre-

-are, vtaking place within. [the] Thousands of conscripts

framework of the agreements| viously classified as unfit, for concluded a year ago between active service have beer France and Japan,”

mobilised, it is stated, while The press of unoccupied France many who had been discharged so far has remained silent on the after service in China have again question.

been called up.

Japanese To ““Defend”

Indo-China

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Membaras of the Japanesé have

community in Shanghai

also been called up and are leaving for Japan,aykut Reports received in Chungking After saying that the agreement state that three classes of reser- of August, 1940, recognises that vists have already been mobilised

| Japan has rights due to the nation in Japani while motor vehicles are

most interested in the maintenance being requisitioned.

of order in the Far East, tho 'official. Vichý news agency adds:...

"The Japanese are of opinion that events reported in the Im• mediate neighbourhood of Indo

Proparing Indo-China-

AR.I.P the

IN VIEW OF THE PRESENT TENSION IN THE FAR EAST. IN JAPANESE INTEN- TIONS REGARDING INDO- CHINA AND THAILAND

ARE THE SUBJECT OF KEEN SPECULATION,

WORLDWIDE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE AT-

BY COL. KNOX

There is no question" but that recent develon- ments in the Far East, including the Japanese censorship, meant new military developments in that area, said Col. Frank Knox, U.S. Navy Secre- tary, at a press conference in Washington yesterday.

"I LOOK FOR MOVEMENT OUT THERE AND VERY SOON," SAID COL. KNOX, BUT HE DECLINED TO DISCUSS THE POSSIBLE DIRECTION OF THE MOVE.

or

"None can tell at this point whether It with

go north south,” he said.

In reply to a question Col. Knox

United said the

States Pacific F cet was in

do á position to whatever was necessary to carry

ĮSPECHES TO THE LATEST PRO-out American policy in the Fur NOUNCEMENT ON FOREIGN

POLICY OF THE THAI PRE- MIER, LUANG PIBUL SONG- GRAM.

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East. Reuter.

U.S. NAVAL SHORE FACILITIES

Bidding farewell to the official Thai delegation proceeding to Battambong to take over Indo- The $224,000,000 Bill for addi- China territory ceded.under the tional, naval shore facilities pass÷ Tokyo Treaty, the Premier strong-ed the House of Representatives. ly emphasised Thailand would yesterday and has been sent to the continue to adhere to strict 'neu-] Senate, says Reuter from Wash- trality.-Rèuter.

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