Vichy, Sept. 18.
The French Government announced last night that the Franco-Thailand non-aggression pact, concluded on June 12 during the French Government's brief stay in Tours, will become effective within a few days.
The announcement followed Japanese reports from Bangkok alleging that Thailand had made three important territorial demands on French Indo-Chin:
French officials here said the new non-aggression pact provides for the settlement by arbitration the prolonged dispute over the possession of. several islands in the Mekong Riv forming the frontier between Indo-China and Thailand, Certain arch-nationalist elements in Thailand, French officials said, have taken advantage of the Franco-Japanese negotiations in Indo-China to claim the return of territory which belonged to Thailand in 1893.—United. Press.
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