Annamese Clash With British Forces
Received Sunday, 8.40 p.m. SAIGON, Nov. 10. A Trench force equipped with American tanks occupied Tan Ninn, 58 miles north-west of Saigon, opening the first overland link with Cambodia. This will permit extra food supplies for Saigon. Annamese Nationalists last night penetrated an R.A.F. regiment’s perimeter at Saigon airfield and destroyed by fire about 20,000 gallons of high octane aviation spirit, which Reuter’s correspondent says represented practically the entire R.A.F. stock in Indo-China. However, it is officially stated that the destruction of the petrol will not seriously impede flying, since the R.A.F. commitments are light. British artillery joined in a battle between French troops, using tanks, and Annamese south-west of Saigon yesterday after one French formation had met with particularly heavy resistance. Observers reported that the Nationalists used Japanese 75mm. guns.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 267, 12 November 1945, Page 5
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