INDO-CHINESE REBELS
OFFENSIVE BEING PREPARED (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) SAIGON, March 13. The leaders of the Vietminli rebels recently held a conference in Indochina to study their “new strategy for 1950 —-the year of the launching of a general counter-offensive,” said the Vietminli radio to-day. - . , . , The radio said that the Vietminli Foreign Minister had declared that friendship, among Communist China, Russia, and the rebel Government iu Indo-China would hasten the victory of the Vietminh organisation. A communique issued by the Vietminh High Command said that Vietminh troops had repelled 4000 Chinese Nationalist troops who had crossed the Indo-Chinese border. Great quantities of modern guns and ammunition had been captured. . _ . Usually reliable sources m Saigon said that the Vietminh rebels, in order to prepare for their counteroffensive, were sending secret instructions to Indo-Chinese in towns under French control and had decreed compulsory military service i:i the areas controlled by the rebels.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 127, 14 March 1950, Page 3
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