French Threat of Reprisals Against Thailand
CAUSES TEMPORARY CESSATION OF BOMBING
Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m. HANOI, Dec. 14. A French warning to Siam that further air raids on lndo-Cliina would result in drastic Frfench retaliation including the bombing of Bangkok is believed to have Been responsible for the temporary cessation of aerial warfare. A .Saigon message states that the French authorities claim to have smashed the native Communist revolt and broken up the plan to seize French arms and munitions for a march on Saigon. French planes raided Oubon, the terminus of the railroad from Bangkok. French officials said tho Thailand-Indo-China relations temporarily had not become worse because the Thai Government had asked calmness of the people on account of desiring a most successful Bangkok Fair which opened last week,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 307, 16 December 1940, Page 7
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