JAPANESE FORCE IN INDO-CHINA
STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
MANILA, September 29. Annamites, Chinese pirates, French, and Chinese are struggling for control of the Haiphong area of Tonking, French Indo-China, where the Japanese have not yet surrendered, according to the commander of a United States destroyer, Commander Richard Colbert.
The Annamites, under a banner "The Free Republic of Hongay," seized Hongay 19 days after the Japanese surrender. They imprisoned 173 French, mostly civilians. The Chinese, after a three-day battle, drove out the Annamites and liberated the French on September 16. Commander Colbert added that pirates, mostly Chinese, are preying on ports in the Gulf of.Tonking. A French patrol on September 3 boarded a junk anne dwith an ancient muzzle-loading cannon and killed 62 pirates.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 7
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