Border raid alleged
NZPA-Reuter Peking China said yesterday its frontier guards killed more than 100 Vietnamese soldiers on Thursday after they had intruded into a Chinese border commune and attacked villages, laid mines and looted property. It was one of the most serious border clashes reported since the two countries fought a month-long border war in FebruaryMarch, 1979, when China launched a punitive invasion after Vietnamese-led forces had toppled a Chinese-backed Government in Kampuchea. The battle, in Yunnan Province, broke out two days after China lodged a formal protest at the Vietnamese Embassy in Peking, accusing Hanoi of launching more than 240 “provocations and intrusions” this year in which 60 Chinese had been killed or wounded.
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Press, 9 May 1981, Page 8
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