FRENCH MINISTER GETS HOT RECEPTION
London, Jan. 3. Snipers' bullets which whistled round the Colonial Minister (M. Moutet) as he walked across the hospital yard during an inspection tour of Hanoi, killed two French soldiers guard, ing the official party. The French news agency reports that M. Moutet returned to Saigon from Hanoi without discussing peace terms with Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnam Premier.
A French communique states that the French military losses since the fighting started in north£tn IndoChina are 183 dead, 396 wounded, and 28 missing. According to dispatches received by the French General Staff, a French garrison of 500 at Nam EJinh, on the Red River, 50 miles south of Hanoi, is in an almost desperate position. Other messages report large concentrations of Vietnamese in the Langson region. A radio message purporting to come from Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnam Republican Premier, addressed to General Leclerc, said that an equitable peace was still obtainable.
In Calcutta to-day Sarat Chandra Bose appealed to Indians to volunteer to fight with the Vietnarnc.se against the French and thus "play their part in building the structure of Asiatic freedom.” Before the reconstruction of the interim Government Bose was Minister of Mines, Works, and Power.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 January 1947, Page 5
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