WIDE AIR-RAIDING ANNOUNCED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 7

WIDE AIR-RAIDING ANNOUNCED

THAILAND AND INDO-CHINA NEW YORK, 28th November. It has been officially announced in Bangkok that five French planes bombed Nakorn Phanom, injuring six persons. It is stated that Thai planes are at present effecting widespread retaliatory raids on military objectives in Indo-China. The French planes, the claim states, without warning swooped on Nakorn Phanom at 8 o’clock in the morning and machine-gunned the streets, injuring a man and a woman, and later dropped two bombs, injuring three policemen and a girl. An observer who has returned to Hanoi from the border of Thailand and Laos, in the vicinity of Vien Tiane, reports that the Siamese are employing motor-boats equipped with loud speakers along the iMekong River broadcasting in answer to the French who are attempting to arouse the natives. THREE FRENCH PLANES SHdT DOWN (Received 30th November. 9.5 a.m.) BANGKOK, 29th November. It is officially stated that three French aeroplanes attempting to raid Nakorn Phanom were shot down. BOMBINGS BY THAI PLANES (Received 30th November, 10.30 a.m.) HANOI, 29th November. It is announced that seven' Thai planes on Thursday bombed strategic roadhead and towns at Thakhek and Savannaket, destroying houses and killing and wounding some persons. The French immediately retaliated with 81 millimetre mortars, shelling Lakhon opposite Thakhek