FRENCH SUCCESS IN INDO-CHINA: TOWN CAPTURED
SAIGON, Oct. 2 (Rec. 9 a.m.).— French Army Headquarters announced today that the Vietminh rebel military capital, Thai Nguyen, fell last night. Paratroops were dropped north of Thai Nguyen an hour before the first French column from Hanoi reached the city. Mopping up is continuing today. The "operation, supported by artillery, .fighter planes and gunboats, began last Friday night and was designed to protect the rice bowl after the Vietminh seizure of the French frontier outpost, Dongkhe, 130 miles further north.
Dongkhe, which helped to guard the three main routes from IndoChina to the Chinese province of Yunnan, fell on September 18. Thai Nguyen is on a tributary of the Red river. The advance had been delayed by a typhoon and by the destruction of roads and communications by Vietminh guerrillas. The operation is the most important since May, when the French sent a force 50 miles south-east from Hanoi to take Phuly.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1950, Page 5
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