UNREST IN INDO-CHINA
NEW YORK, December 11. Travellers arriving at Manila from Saigon report that serious native risings in Indo-China are intensifying the difficulty of the French in maintaining their control in face of the Japanese pressure and the hostilities with Thailand. At least 20 risings occurred within a radius of 100 miles from Saigon in the week ended November 26. Planes from Saigon were daily bombing centres of the trouble, and 200 natives were shot at Saigon airport on November 22. The French imposed a censorship in order not to give the Japanese an excuse for sending troops, the travellers state. According to a Domei news agency message from Tokio, however, MajorGeneral Paishiro Sumita, the leader of \ the Japanese military mission in IndoChina, is going to Saigon to study the conditions in southern Indo-China, where native unrest is reported. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 8
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