Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-10-18 | Page 5 | Hong Kong Road Opening Halted

lie NG KONG ROAD P E NiNO HALTED to G Ko KONG Oct t. t 18 INS INS INS- gaethe face of Tokyo warnings III the japan an would take strong a tires 5 res If u Great Britain reed reea re- re ed Jl the the- H Hong Kong supply Dt ea to China British authorities Friday aay unexpectedly changed ii minds at the last minute and ced reopening of the route be indefinitely indefinitely postponed announcement followed afew a few hours a previous announcement that the routed route lid d be reopened Friday British government in Lon- Lon tilt e was understood to have orthe orthe or- or the route route- reopened along Burma road roid as a further l of Great Britain's defiant defiantly i If ly to Japans Japan's action in joining axis is powers Ii added that the ban on sup- sup It from Hong Kong to China y not been lifted t and will n not gifted fled p pending the out outcome of Bent nt diplomatic n negotiations ever er neutral observers here hereit hat at it if the route had been reed reit re- re ed it would have prompted t x young hot-headed hot Japanese to blockade this British ny Jr both from land and sea janese troops are known to be beat aced at a former jurist inist J t gambling village on the theder theider ider fer der of Chinese-British Chinese territory j 1 considered certain that these would immediately attempt Isolate l late Hong Kong from the in- in pcr of China if the Hong Kong reopened fa was