Saigon Area Shelled
f.v.Z. Press Association—Copyright) SAIGON, December 19. Viet Cong guerrillas attacked a section of Saigon with grenade launchers and heavy automatic arms fire a few minutes before midnight last night, the Associated Press reported.
They fired into an outlying portion of Cholon, the city’s Chinese quarter. Informed sources said there were no casualties. It was the first time the Viet Cong have used such fire against the capital. The grenades struck an area less than four miles from the heart of the sprawling city’s business district Police said
the attack came at 20 minutes to midnight. The heavy automatic arms fire was described as intense while it lasted. The attack came from the rice paddy fields that stretch to the south-west. Neither Saigon police nor other reliable sources could estimate the number of Viet Cong involved in the attack.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 17
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141Saigon Area Shelled Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 17
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