THREAT SEEN TO HANOI
VIETMINH REBELS CLOSER SAIGON, November 5. Vietminh rebel troops are to-day massing nearer than ever before to Hanoi, the French-held capital of Tonkin in North Indo-China. According to unofficial reports they are gathering in strength west of the former French outpost of Haobinh, the evacuation of which was announced earlier to-day. It lies 31 miles southwest of Hanoi. Military observers said that the evacuation was part of the French plan to shorten the 375 mile defences in the Red river delta by abandoning exposed outposts. The French garrison of Haobinh is now marching east from the fallen town.
A French Army spokesman said that the rebels threaten two other regions in the delta area, one near Hadong, only six miles from the State capital, and the other around Phuly, a road and rail junction 35 miles south of Hanoi.
The spokesman added that the Vietminh forces, apparently attracted by the rich rice harvest, had made many infiltrations in these areas.
The French lost nine killed in an attack yesterday near Thaibinh, 50 miles south-west of Hanoi.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26264, 8 November 1950, Page 7
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