The Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Masayuki Tani, invited the French Ambassador at Tokyo, Mr. Charles Arsène-Henry to the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon. At the interview Mr. Tani made strong representation regarding the prohibition of transportation through French Indo-China of materials and goods in aid of the Chiang Kai-shek régime, requesting at the same time that the French Government consent to the dispatch of Japanese inspectors for the purpose of making investigations of actual conditions on the spot.
In response to the above representation, the French Ambassador called on the Vice-Foreign Minister at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, and stated that the French Government have since the 17th of this month forbidden the transportation of such commodities as gasoline and trucks to China, but that in view of the repeated representation of the Japanese Government they have decided to prohibit the transportation of materials and goods of an extremely wide range of varieties and that they have no objection to Japan's dispatching inspectors to the spot. The interview ended at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon.