BORDER FIGHTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 5

BORDER FIGHTING

THAILAND & INDO-CHINA DEVELOPING ON SERIOUS SCALE. HEAVY BOMBING IN CAMBODIA. Serious fighting is reported on the borders of Thailand and IndoChina, the 8.8. C. states. The Thailand High Command reports an advance into French territory and in a message from Hanoi the French admit a withdrawal to a line 5 to 10 miles inside the frontier and add that they arc prepared if necessary to withdraw to another line thirty miles further wack. Extensive air attacks on Cambodia have been carried out by ninety Thailand bombers. It is announced from Vichy that ns a reprisal for these attacks, two Thailand villages have been bombed by French machines. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED IN THAI PROVINCES. PENETRATION OF 20 MILES INTO INDO-CHINA. LONDON. January 9. Martial law has been proclaimed in 24 provinces of Thailand, bordering French Indo-China, states a message from Bangkok, Thai forces are reported to have penetrated Cambodia in three places. A later message from Shanghai states that Thai troops, supported by the air force, have penetrated 20 miles within Indo-China territory, advancing in the direction of the Angkor ruins.

DRIYE INTO CAMBODIA

FRENCH FORCED TO RETREAT.

(Received This Day. 9.5 a.m ) BANGKOK. January 9,

The Thailand forces, driving deep into Cambodia, forced the French to retreat “far behind their old positions,” which the Thais occupied. However they have not yet reached Sisophon. A communique said: "Ninety Thai planes heavily bombed Sisophon and live other towns, entirely setting tire to Sisophon. All the Thai planes returned."

The communique added that artillery fire was raging throughout ‘die Nongkai, Nakornphanom and Mukdaharn sectors, setting fire to an oil dump and exploding a munitions dump.