INVASION ROUTE TO INDO-CHINA
COMMUNIST FORCES HANDY (Rlic. 10.15 a.m.) SAIGON, March 15. About 700,000 regular Chinese Communist troops were loosely concentrated in the Kwangsi Province areas adjacent to the classic invasion route to Indo-China between Ning Ming and the coast, the French Army Commander; (General Carpentier) said to-day. He said there was no sign of the Chinese preparing to move south toward the frontier, which the .French held very strongly. Viet Minlr rebels were receiving arms and ammunition from China in the same way that Greek Communists were formerly supplied over the Yugo-slav-Albanian frontier, he said, but so far no Chinese regular forces bad infiltrated across the frontier. General Carpentier said the rebels in Hanoi delta were being driven into unfertile mountains, thus removing the menace from the industrial and agricultural delta districts.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 129, 16 March 1950, Page 5
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