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Chinese Communists And Ho Chi-Minh MILITARY AID REPORTED NZPA—Reuter—Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. HONGKONG, May 9. Increased military co-operation between the Chinese Communists and President Dr Ho Chi-Minh’s * iet Minh forces is reported from Canton. The reports say that the Chinese have stationed 200.000 combat troops of General Lin Piao’s Fourth Field Army on the Chinese-Viet Nam border. Military supplies are said to be pouring into Ho Chi-Minh’s forces by land and sea. According to the Canton report, a Chinese-Viet Minh liaison office to direct the flow of Chinese aid to Ho Chi-Minh has been established at Lungchow, in Kwangsi, near the IndoChina frontier. A large part of the military supplies sent to Indo-China came directly from Russia. To supplement the land route the Chinese organised a fleet of 50 vessels ferrying shipments from Liuchow peninsula to Ho Chi-Minh-controlled ports in Indo-China.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27385, 10 May 1950, Page 7
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