TENSION GREATER
THAILAND AND INDOCHINA
VICHY PREPARED FOR COMMISSION
(Received October 8, 1 p*.m.)
LONDON,- October 7.
A Hanoi message states that tension between Indo-China and Thailand mounted after a Thai representative, Major Chai Pradipasena, left for Bangkok last night after a conference with Major-Genera! Sumita, Japan's representative in Indo-Cliina, Admiral Decoux, the French Governor, and General Martin, ebmmander-in-chief of the French army, at which Major Chai said that Admiral Decoux had rejected Thailand's demands.
A Vichy message says that the Government has notified Thailand of its readiness to establish a Franco-Siamese Commission to investigate the frontier incidents.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1940, Page 7
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