INDO-CHINA RULE

Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 316, 27 September 1940, Page 3

INDO-CHINA RULE

DEFENCE BY FRENCH JAPANESE INVASION PROGRESS OF TROOPS FRONT OF 50 MILES HANOI, Sept, 25. French official circles in Haiphong to-day declared that since the Japanese were continuing to infringe the.terms of the Hanoi agree-, inent by trying to enter Indo-China forcibly, the French regard the agreement as cancelled. It is officially stated in Hanoi that the French remained firmly decided to carry out the terms of the Hanoi agreement but Indo-China could not tolerate the condition of affairs when aij agreement," hardly signed, was broken by the initiative of the Southern China Command. IndoChina remained decided to oppose itself by force to the attack of the Japanese Southern China Ai my. Tokio reports that Japanese forces in southern China have started advancing on Indo-China via Haiphong. .. Border fighting along a 50-mile front centred on Langson. The Japanese vanguards are reported to have reached Keh along the Lang-son-Ivaobank highway and also to have reached the vicinity of Lacbinh along the Langson-Mokay highway. Haiphong reports that there were some minor exchanges of rifle and machine-gun fire again yesterday afternoon between F'rench and Japanese in the nort of Indo-Chma, Otherwise the situation was outwardly quiet. . It was officially stated m Hanoi' yesterday that the Japanese renewed the Kwangai border attacks during the afternoon with increased intensity. A message from Kweilin, the capital of Kwangsi, states that the Chinese are reported to have attacked the Japanese near Lungehow, hindering the invasion of IndoChina.