BORDER INCIDENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1940, Page 5

BORDER INCIDENT

THAILAND & INDO=CHINA FEW SHOTS EXCHANGED. ACTION AGAINST BANDITS NEAR SAIGON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SHANGHAI, November 25. The Havas news agency’s Hanoi correspondent states that a border incident occurred on the Thailand'frontier on Saturday night. Siamese troops ;iftempted Io cross Hie border over a creek near T’opet. The Siamese retreated following the exchange of a few shots.

Several native police and guards were killed or wounded on Friday night in several villages to the west and north of Saigon, when gangs of armed bandits attacked isolated police stations and a number of local administration offices in the Vunglien, Tambinh and Canglon districts. The military authorities took “strong action” in restoring order. A number of the ringleaders were arrested.

Apparently all the news agencies except the Domei and the Havas had their messages from Indo-China censored for the past 48 hours. The Domci's Hanoi correspondent says guards captured armed Annamese attempting to riot when they surrounded Indo-Chinese garrisons at Saigon on Friday. The Government is reported to have said that Communists were responsible. A Bangkok message says the police issued an order prohibiting the publication of the activities of the armed forces, specially in the border regions, in view of the "increasing seriousness” of the present crisis.