Grenade Attacks In Saigon
(NZ.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) SAIGON, Dec. 20. Two Viet Cong hurled a grenade at a fourman police patrol in Saigon last night, wounding three police and two civilians.
It was the fourth attack in a week on Vietnamese police in the southern part of the capital. One policeman chased the two Viet Cong, firing his machine gun. He killed one and captured the other, a 15-year-old youth. Police working double shifts today blanketed Saigon in an attempt to break up any major attacks. Today is the fifth anniversary of the Viet Cong movement in South Vietnam.
The pre-dawn hours, traditional period of most danger from bombers, passed without
incident, police said. Security through the city was the tightest of the five-year-old war. Soldiers were under a dusk-to-dawn curfew for the first time and United States military police roamed the city to make certain it was enforced. Many streets leading to key American military installations or passing American billets, were closed to Vietnamese traffic.
Extra guards were on duty at the United States Embassy and United States Information Office.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 21
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