THAI OVERTURES

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 145, 16 December 1940, Page 10

THAI OVERTURES

PEACE WITH INDO-CHINA

READY TO NEGOTIATE

TERRITORIAL CLAIMS

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.)

(Received December 16, 1 p.m.)

BANGKOK, December 15.

The Thai Government has announced its willingness to negotiate a settlement with Indo-China "by peaceful means." On the question of Indo-China territories, which Thailand demanded, the Thai Government has requested Indo-China to send a French commission to Bangkok.

A Thai communique says that French planes dropped incendiary bombs on Sholnakorn and Mukdahorn.

THAILAND WARNED

RAIDS ON INDO-CHINA

FRENCH RETALIATION

HANOI, December 14,

A French warning to Thailand that further air raids on Indo-China would result in drastic French retaliation, including the bombing of Bangkok, is believed to have been responsible for a temporary cessation of aerial warJare. French planes raided Oubon, the terminus of the railroad from Bangkok.

French officials said that Thailand-Indo-China relations would temporarily not become worse, because the Thai Government had asked calmness of the people as it desired a successful Bangkok fair, which opened on December 8.

A Saigon message states that French authorities claim to have smashed a native Communist revolt and broken up a plan to seize French arms and munitions for a march on Saigon.

According to a Tokio message the Domei news agency's correspondent somewhere in Indo-China said, that Japanese naval planes bombed the Burma Road, destroying the new Kungkuo bridge over the Meekong River.