AID FOR INDO-CHINA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 301, 27 September 1940, Page 6

AID FOR INDO-CHINA.

OFFER BY UNITED STATES.

GOVERNOR MAY LEAD RESISTANCE.

NEW YORK, September 26

The “Daily News” says that the Indo-Chinese representative in Washington, Colonel Jacorny, is going to Hanoi by air, bearing promises short of war from the United States, including permission to buy war materials conditional on Jndo-China fighting effectively and remaining independent of Nazi influence.

The “Daily News” added that the Governor (Vice-Admiral Decoux) expelled fears that he is a Nazi puppet, and it is now hoped that lie will lead the fighting and inspire the remainder of French Colonials.

It is officially announced from Hanoi that the French withdrew from Langson, which the Japanese are encircling with’ superior numbers. The French Foreign Ministry announced thAt the Japanese envoy (Major-General Nishiharaj" negotiated the termination of Japanese aggression at Dongdang, which ended border fighting.

It is officially stated in Hanoi that border fighting along a 50-mile front centred, at Langson. Earlier reports Were that the Japanese vanguards reached Keh, along the Langson Caobank highway, and had also reached the vicinity of Lacbinh,-along the Langson - Mokay highway. The French remain firmly decided to carry out the terms of the Hanoi agreement. Indo-China cannot tolerate that an agreement hardly signed should be broken by the initiative of the Southern China Command. IndoChina remains decided, to oppose by force the attack of the Japanese Southern China Army. French official circles in Haiphong declare; that since the Japanese are continuing to iinfringe the terms of the agreement by trying to enter IndoChina forcibly, the French regard the agreement as,cancelled. A Tokio .message says that the Japanese forces in Southern China have started advancing undisclosed ymits of Japanese troops into Indo-China via Haiphong. The correspondent of the Doniei News Agency at Langson states that an amicable agreement "was reached on the spit, and hostilities have ceased. The Southern China correspondent of the Agency says it is officially announced that Japanese forces landed peacefully near Haiphong this morning.

The Central News” states that < 'lnnese troops are preparing to enter IndoChina. The Chinese Foreign Office has instructed the Hanoi consulate 1 to arrange urgent evacuation of Chinese from Indo-China and also to negotiate compensation for all Chinese losses as a result of the fighting.