BRITISH MOVES IN MALAYA

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 118, 12 February 1941, Page 7

BRITISH MOVES IN MALAYA

Northern Defences JAPANESE TROOPS IN SAIGON

(By Telegraph.—Press Ast?u.—Copyright.) LONDON, February 10.

A report from Bangkok to the Tokio newspaper “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” reports that British troops from Singapore are massing along the west coast of the Malay Peninsula between Singapore and the Thai border, and are "evidently preparing to march to the border. The report added that British troops from Burma have been concentrated in the Margui Islands since November.

It has been officially announced in Singapore that formations of R.A.F. Blenheim bombers have left Singapore to reinforce stations in northern Malay ‘‘for the better protection of other sections of Malaya.” This is possibly the result of recent increases in the Singapore air strength. The Saigon correspondent of the American Associated Press says that Japau appears to have established a military foothold in Saigon by unheralded infiltrations. Japanese soldiers are guarding four bombers which have just arrived and which are serviced at Saigon airport by Japanese mechanics. Japanese officers have established their headquarters in the offices of the Air Force aerodrome. For the first time Japanese soldiers have been seen in the streets of Saigon, apparently having arrived today by air or by the cruiser Abukuma. A Tokio message says that Bishop Charles Reifsnider, head of the American Episcopal Mission, after a conference with the United States Ambassador, Mr. Grew, is reported to have advised his subordinates to leave Japan as soon as possible because of the tense situation.