Thailand Willing For Peaceful Settlement
The Thailand Government has announced its willingness to negotiate a settlement “by peaceful means” on the question of Indo-China territories, which Thailand demanded.
The Thai Government requested Indo-China to send a French commission to Bangkok. A Thai communique says French planes dropped incendiary bombs on Sholnakorn and Mukdahorn. The French have sent a warning to Thailand that further air raids on Indo-China will result in drastic French retaliation, including the bombing of Bangkok. This is believed to be responsible for the temporary cessation of aerial warfare. Want Happy Fair. French officials said relations were temporarily no worse, because the Thai Government had asked for calmness from the people as it was desired to make an outstanding success of the Bangkok Fair, which opened on December 8. French planes raided Oubon, the terminus of a railroad from Bangkok towards the Indo-China border, said an earlier message. A Bangkok communique says a series of French attempts to penetrato the Thai frontier by land and air was repulsed.
The French authorities claim to have smashed a native communist revolt and broken up a plan to seize French arms and munitions for a march on Saigon.
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Northern Advocate, 16 December 1940, Page 2
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