HEAVY FRENCH LOSSES IN INDO-CHINA
REINFORCEMENTS TO BE SENT LONDON, Jan. 17 Received Saturday, 10.15 a.m. The French have lost all the interior of Cochin-Chlna except the main towns, according to a CochinChina Government spokesman. He said: "The only master of the situation is the invisible Governihent. itvents are stronger than we. The terror becomes more ferocious." Reuter's Paris correspondent says that Vietnam representatives in Nanking have appealed to the United States and China to arbitrate between the Vietnamese and French. The French Colonial Minister, M. Marius Moutet, told the National Assembly's Defence Commissioner that France had decided to send all the reinforcements to IndoChina for which the General Staff rnay ask. He expressed the opinion Ihat France needed an army of 150,000 in Indo-China to win a military decision. M. Moutet added that there were now 116,000 French troops in Indo-China. A policy of force was absolutely necessary and would be pursued. Replying to a question submitted through the .underground by the Unitea Press, Ho Chi Minh, President of the Vietnam Government in Indo-Qhina, said the Vietnam forces- wdulcfdcontinue the struggle against the French until Fran'ce recognised the independence of the Vietnam regime.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 January 1947, Page 5
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