INDO-CHINA TROUBLES

Grey River Argus, 13 December 1940, Page 8

INDO-CHINA TROUBLES

Japanese to Investigate [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn-3 (Received December 12, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, December 11 According to a Domei message from Tokio, Major-General Paishiro Sumita, leader of the Japanese military mission iin Indo-China, is going / to Saigon to study conditions in southern Indo-China, where native unrest is reported. ' TRAVELLERS’ ACCOUNTS (Received December 12, 7.55 p.m? NEW YORK, December 11. Travellers arriving in Manila from Saigon, in Indo-China, report serious, native uprisings in Indo-China iia\“ been intensifying for the French the problem of maintaining control in the face of Japanese pressure and of the hostilities with Thailand. It was stated that at least twenty risings had occurred within a radius of one hundred miles of Saigon during the week ended November 26 last, and planes from Saigon were daily bombing these trouble centres. Two hundred natives had been shot at the* Saigon airport on November 22. Th« French had imposed a censorship in order not to give the Japanese any excuse for sending troons into tho tyrea.

Raid on Indo-China K SIAMESE FORCES ATTACK. lAus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received December 13, 1.15 a.m.) MONTREAL,, December 12. At Bangkok, the Thailand High Command, in a report, said: “Thailand frontier forces fired big guns, rifles and machine-guns across the Mekong River at Thakek. “Planes of the Royal Air Force at the same time bombed the aerodromes of Thakek, Vientiane and Savanakhet. This was in retaliation for a recent French raid. It was also said that the raid was successful and satisfactory,” One Thailand ’plane was lost. It was also said that eleven were killed on Wednesday morning, when the French shelled Mukdahan from Savanakhe. DE GAULLE CONSUL SETS UP IN SINGAPORE. (Received. December 13. 1.20 a.m.) SINGAPORE, December 12. Monsieur Guy Quoniam de Schompre, who formerly was a French Consular Officer at Tientsin, has arrived in Singapore, where he has established an office as representative of General de Gaulle in the Far East.