THAILAND FIGHTING
REPORTED SUCCESSES AGAINST FRENCH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 3. The Bangkok correspondent of the Associated Press of America says that the Thailand High Command has announced that a French effort to seize the south-eastern province of Trad was beaten off. A French warship was damaged from the air. A detachment of French troops, landed a few miles from the Thai frontier, proceeded inland for a short distance before being repulsed. A second landing party was repulsed with heavy casualties. On the north-eastern front, near Nagorbanom, Thai aircraft carried out retaliatory raids, wrecking the French military headquarters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1940, Page 6
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