USING POISONED ARROWS
ANNAMESE ATTACK GURKHAS LONDON, October 18. Gurkha |roops holding three bridges in north-west Saigon drove back Annamese who attacked with poisoned arrows under cover of a smoke-screen, says Reuter's Saigon correspondent. The Gurkhas, on October 17, sank a •boatload of Nationalists who were trying to enter the city along a canal under the corer of darkness. A brigade of Gurkhas and Punjabis landed on October 17, bringing the total of Indian troops in Saigon to 24,000. The. food position in Saigon is improving. The French authorities announced that the Annamese have kidnapped 271 civilians, including 220 French Eurasians, since the disturbances began.
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Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 7
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105USING POISONED ARROWS Evening Star, Issue 25619, 20 October 1945, Page 7
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