IN INDO=CHINA
-4 FRENCH DISGUST AT BETRAYAL. ENTRY OF THE JAPANESE. Disgust at the betrayal is the general feeling of Frenchmen in IndoChina who have had to submit to the humiliation, imposed upon Vichy, of Japanese “collaboration.” In a letter from French Indo-China a writer says: “The Japanese are here in very large numbers, sent into this defenceless French colony under the pretext of preventing it from becoming a 'second Syria’ and to forestall alleged British manoeuvres—the Japanese the guardians of the sovereignty and independence of Indo-China! The French pretend not to notice their existence, treating them with cold indifference—the only weapon left to us! Telling of the first sight of Japanese troops, seen from a motor bus, the writer says: “The faces of the French passengers were overcast with a look of despair and were pale with anger. An old French woman wiped the tears from her eyes, then she muttered: ‘After the war, we shall see what we shall see.” A French colonist, whose hair was grey before its time, bit fiercely the pipe in his mouth. Then he opened his newspaper wide before him and did not look up until the last of the Japanese column had passed.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1941, Page 3
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