FRENCH ACCUSED
COMPLAINT BY THAILAND OFFICIAL FORCIBLE EVACUATIONS ALLEGED. AND SEIZURE OF PROPERTY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 9.20 a.m.) BANGKOK, March 28. An authorised official has charged the French with having forcibly evacuated residents from the ceded areas of Mongkolburi, Battambong and Kralanya to Pnompenh, after which the French seized their possessions, including rice stores, and set fire to the villages. The official said the French offered Cambodians and Laos fifty piastres and a three-year tax exemption if they would settle in French territories and he announced that the Government had notified Tokio of the French activities. Meanwhile the Premier. Luang Bipul Songram. has gone to the frontier to inspect the areas for the first time since lhe close of hostilities.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1941, Page 5
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