THAILAND TREATY
INDO-GHINA CEDES TERRITORY FURTHER DETAILS OF TERMS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright TOKIO, March 13. It has been announced that the Thailand and French mediation delegates will remain in Tokio in order to draft a new treaty, and are also inviting specialists from their home Governments to negotiate under the auspices of the Japanese Foreign Office. Further details of the terms of the peace treaty (the message containing them was heavily delayed in transit) show that the Mekong frontier will be fixed in accordance with the principal deep water channel, but the two islands of Khong and Khone will be under the sovereignty of Thailand with France and Thailand jointly administering them. The existing French establishments on the islands,will belong to France.
The treaty stated: “ In signing the terms of mediation, letters were exchanged between Japan and France, and between Japan and Thailand, in which Japan guarantees the definite nature of the settlement and agreement will subsequently be made respecting the maintenance of peace in Greater East Asia, and the establishment and promotion of especially closer relations between Japan and Thailand and also between Japan and IndoChina.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23834, 14 March 1941, Page 8
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