Hongkong, Aug. 9.
eign Legion were guarding the fron-Two battalions of the French For-Wier as tension increased. in Indo-China because a memorandum covering the "cooperation" Japan expeets was handed Vice-Admiral Jean Decoux, Governor-General of Tndo-Ching, 'a French traveller who arrived here by plane from Hanoi said today, substantiating similar reports circulated yesterday.
The text of the memorandum was not Fevealed in Hanoi, the traveller taid, but was forwarded to Vichy. Reports reaching here from Vichy recently said that the Japanese were Yequesting the French for the right fo establish naval or military bases in Indo-China for the purpose of opening a powerful drive against Chungking.
Simultaneously, it was learned that Chinese troops, probably in view of the serious situation caused by the Japanese demands, massed along the Indo-China frontier in the vicinity ut For Japanese Attack London, Aug. 6. France is determined to resist any Japanese attack on French Indo-China, according to a report from Vichy cabled by the "Daily Mail" correspondent on the Franco-Spanish frontier.
Demobilization of all native regiments in Indo-China has been cancelled, and all coastal defence forts have been manned.
All French warships in the Far East have been ordered to Indo-China—Reuter.
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