HALT IN FIGHTING
SIAM AND INDO-CHINA ATTEMPT TO .PROMOTE SETTLEMENT. DISORDERS IN FRENCH AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) HANOI, December 4. After three days of sharp fighting, the French announed that “reprisals for the Siamese attacks” have been halted* to give the diplomats an opportunity to make a settlement. Native disturbances increased in three provinces in western CochinChina. Twenty native police officers were killed in the south when suppressing disorders. Several French gun-boats have been sent to Hanoi in the face of threatened unrisings in the north. Forty-eight persons were arrested in Tonkin and Annam as Communists.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1940, Page 5
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