FRENCHMEN ESCAPE
INDO-CHINA FORCES JAPANESE SEA LOSSES (1.30 p.m.) It' CHUNGKING, Oct. 18. Chungking is rapidly becoming the headquarters of Frenchmen escaping from’-the -"occupied • ’areas-’ in the Far East who hope to join the Fighting French. Six’have arrived in the last few weeks'; including‘Squadron-Leader Pirr Louyads, of the French air force stationed in Indo-China. • He said that the Japanese strength in Indo-China was only 20,000, most of ‘which,’ including the air force, is concentrated in the Saigori area. Pie revealed that Allied submarines were active along - the Indo-China coast arid have sunk many warships ■arid'transports iri the vicinity of Carnfarili Bay, forcing' the Japanese to abandon it as a naval baisSJ
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 4
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111FRENCHMEN ESCAPE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 4
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