THE RED FLAG
AFFAIR IN INDC CHINA
FRENCH OFFICERS MURDERED
PARIS, 15th February.
There is intense indignation regarding the news that two French officers .and three uon-commissioned officers at Yea Bay, Indo-China, have been murdered in their beds by a handful of native desperadoes, who planned an attack on the barracks..
Afterwards the desperadoes, threatening them with death, press-ganged a number of men of the regiment. They captured two wings of the barracks and ran up the red flag.
The battalion commander called on some loyalists, who counter-attacked at dawn anc recaptured the buildings.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 9
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94THE RED FLAG Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 17 February 1930, Page 9
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