FRENCH MISSION TO SINGAPORE
Reported Defence Moves (Received February 3, 7.40 p.m.) CHUNGKING, February 2. According to Chinese sources in Hong Kong, French Indo-China has sent emissaries to .Singapore to discuss British co-operation to prevent, a Japanese seizure of south Indo-China. It is said that following the truce with Thailand, French troops have started to concentrate in Cochin China to strengthen the defence of Saigon. It is officially stated in Bangkok (Thailand) that a peace mission is going to Tokio aboard a Japanese plane. It is expected an agreement with Indo-China will be reached within a fortnight.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 111, 4 February 1941, Page 8
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