COMMUNISTS IN SAIGON
RAIDS BY VIETNAM POLICE
1000 PERSONS DETAINED (Rec. 7 p.m.) SAIGON, Augu«t 11. Armed Vietnam and French police detained more than 1000 persons suspected of being Communists, after a two-day swoop on Saigon's underground guerrilla centres. Tommy-gun skirmishes were reported as municipal police and French Union Army forces launched the raid, which followed calls by leaders of the Vietminh Insurrectionary Government for “all-out violence in Saigon.” Tile police said that they recovered 16 Sten guns in an earlier raid, n Th®,Vietnam police to-day reported that Communist underground guerrillas late last night threw two hand- • grenades outside the crowded King hing gambling casino. Eleven persons were injured. The police reported that they were continuing the series of raids and searches for Vietminh leaflets and banners.
To-day was the fifth anniversary of the proclamation of the Vietminh Insurrectionary Government led by Dr. Ho Chi-minh.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26196, 21 August 1950, Page 7
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