THE SIAMESE INCIDENT
FRENCH GIVE EXPLANATION
Troops Pursue Rebels Across Border
Complaint Sent To United Nations
London, May 30
French officials in Saigon have given details of the incident behind the complaint sent by the Siamese Prime Minister to the Secretary-Gen-eral of I lie United Nations of a French entry into Siam.
The French statement says that their troops entered Siam last Friday in pursuit of rebels and that the French troops remained on Siamese territory for only three hours. The Siamese complaints have been voiced again to-day by the Siamese Legation in London. It says that French troops who crossed the border are still balding the Siamese tenitury they seized 1 .
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14074, 31 May 1946, Page 3
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