CLOSED TO PASSENGER TRAFFIC
INDO CHINA FRONTIER I U P A.-By Electric relegraph-Copvright j (Received 9th December, 11.20 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Bth December. The Government authorities have ordered the Indo-China frontier closed to all passenger traffic, both Chinese and foreign, because of the inability of the Chinese authorities to guarantee the safety of the lives of travellers along the ninety kilometres gap between the present termination of the Chinese section of the Yunnan railway and the Indo-China frontier. COUNTER-ATTACK FAILS SHANGHAI, Btah December. Despite the crossing of the IndoChina frontier on Friday by Thai troops at Poipet and the machine-gunning of Poipet by Thai warplanes, the IndoChina forces failed in a counter-attack. This is stated by a Japanese report from Hanoi. Planes are said to have acted in concert with troops crossing the frontier in Cambodia, while later Thai planes allegedly bombed Vientiene.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 December 1940, Page 6
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