TROUBLE REPORTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 128, 26 November 1940, Page 8

TROUBLE REPORTED

BORDER OF THAILAND

ACTIVITY BY BANDITS

SHANGHAI, November 25,

The Hanoi correspondent of the Havas (French) news agency states that it is officially announced that a border incident occurred on the Thai frontier on Saturday night. Siamese troops attempted. to cross the border over a creek near Popet. The Siamese retreated following the exchange of a few shots.

Several native police and guards were killed or wounded on Friday night in several villages to the west and north of Saigon, when gangs of armed bandits attacked isolated police stations and a number of local administration offices in the Vunglien, Tambinh, and Canglong districts. The military authorities took "strong action" in restoring order. A number of the ringleaders were arrested.

Apparently all the news agencies except the Domei (Japanese) and the Havas have had their messages from Indo-China censored for the past 48 hours.

The Hanoi correspondent of the Domei agency says that guards captured armed Annamese attempting to riot when they surrounded IndoChinese garrisons at Saigon on Friday. The Government is reported to have said that Communists were responsible.

A Bangkok message says the police issued an order prohibiting the publication of the activities of the armed forces, specially in the border regions, in view of the "increasing seriousness" of the present crisis.