FRENCH SUCCESS AGAINST REBELS IN INDOCHINA
SAIGON, July 27 (Rec. 12.30 pan.). —French Foreign Legionnaires, with amphibious tanks, and four infantry battalions supported by aircraft, artillery and French naval craft have scattered an 11,000-strong Vietminh guerrilla force 100 miles south of Saigon. In the past three days the combined operation against the guerrillas has swept through jungles, thickets, swamps and muddy rice paddies in a nc-man’s-land at the south-eastern tip of the Travinh Peninsula, where the guerrillas were forming for an atThe French forces, comprising in addition to crack legionnaiTes, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Moroccan units led by French officers, did not suffer a single casualty but the guerrillas suffered severely. It is believed that the threat to French-held territory is over for the present. _______________
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1950, Page 5
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