French Ministers also received official despatches stating that Japan had concentrated enormous arms and munitions in depots in Thailand. Japan, authoritative sources said, never ceased carrying arms to Bangkok unti more arms and munitions were there than the Thai army could hope to use, Many observers here were convinced that Japan had taken advantage of the Mekong River frontier tension to build up a great stock of arms in Thailand for possible eventual use against Singapore, should conflict come there, Government sources here were informed that a Japanese freighter to Bangkok landed 30 light tanks, several hundred machine-guns, several million rounds of bullets and several thousand explosive bombs,
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