PROTEST BY SIAM

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24886, 28 May 1946, Page 5

PROTEST BY SIAM

French Aggression Alleged UNO INFORMED

(Rec. 1 a.m.) LONDON. Mar EL No information has been received in Paris from Indo-China about the reported incident on the Siamese frontier. According to a message from Bangkok Siamese Government sources stated that French forces yesterday crossed the river Mekong border from Indo-China into Siam. The crossings are reported to have been made at two points at Nakom, in the Pantom district of north-east Siam, against light resistance by Siamese police. The French are said to have bombarded objectives before advancing, and after occupying Thabo, marched toward Nongkai, 300 miles north-east of Bangkok. _ , A Government communique revealed that Siam has Informed the United

Nations of the French action and has also appealed to the British and United States Legations In Bangkok for inter-

vention. The French, It is reported, entered Siamese territory to demand the return of arms allegedly carried out by French refugees who crossed the frontier during “recent internal trouble in French Indo-China.” Reuter’s correspondent in BangKOK says that the French have set fire to the village of Tabor, which is within five miles of Nongkai.