JAPAN TIGHTENS GRIP
FRENCH INDO-CHINA CONTROL OF COUNTRY (9 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Dec. 4. After the scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon and the weakening of the Vichy Government, Japan decided to tighten her control over French Indo-China and take over the whole country, said the Chinese Army spokesman. The Jananese originally planned to divide Indo-China into four regions, allowing the French to control one in the north and puppet native princes the other three.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20959, 5 December 1942, Page 3
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