Border Fighting On 50 Mile Front

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 7

Border Fighting On 50 Mile Front

STAND BY FRENCH Determination To Resist ' Invasion By Jap. Forces (United Press Association.—Copyright.—Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. It is officially reported in Hanoi that there is border fighting along a 50-mile front centred on Langson. Th e latest reports show that the Japanese vanguards have reached Keh, along the Langson-Caobank highway, and have also advanced along the Langson-Mokay highway. Officials stated that the French remain firmly decided to carry out the terms of the Hanoi agreement. However. IndoChina cannot tolerate that an agreement, hardly signed, should be broken by the initiative of the southern China Command. Indo-China remains decided to oppose itself by force to the Japanese Southern China Army's attack. French official circles in Haiphong declare that since die Japanese are continuing to infringe the terms of the Hanoi agreement by trying to enter Indo-Chiha forcibly, the French regard the agreement as cancelled. The Japanese southern China forces, it is announced, have started advancing undisclosed units of the Japanese troops to Indo-China via Haiphong. The Rome correspondent of the Tokyo newspaper "Yomiuri" said the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Amau, and Count Gano, Italian Foreign Minister, discussed recent international conditions, in which Ciano is reported to have supported the Japanese entry into Indo-China.