The Archive · 1940

Japanese, French Fight Indo-China Fire

Hanoi, Nov, 2.

Japanese troops turned out {0 cooperate with local fro-fighters yesterday when a fire broke out in the Custom's Bonding Warehouse at Dongdang, near the French Indo China-Kwangsi border The fire was brought under contro!

one hour after destroying a quantily of cotton thread and cotton piece The bonding warehouse contains cotton "textiles, structural steel, Tungsten, tobacco paper, and other articles which wore consigned to China, but held by the. French authorities under the Chinese-

[Japanese agreement on June 26 closing the French Indo-China border 10

[Chinese trade—Domel, ese Orphans Manila, Oct. 29, The family of the late Mr. Dee Ching-chuan, Manila lumber king and tone of the most prominent Chinese the Philippines, who died recently in California, donated $100,000 in aid of the fund for the care of war orphans in China.

Public organizations and friends fare expected by donations to raise att additional $400.000 for the Dee Ching huan Fund which will be sent to Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Dee Ching-chuan was president of the China Banking Corporation and chairman of the Association for rals~ ing war funds and founder of the sPukien Times," a leading Chinese

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