Gen, Nishihara En Route to See Gen, Ando, C.1.C.
South China Army, in Effort to Stop Invasion Hanoi, Sept, 24. HE fate of Indo-China today depended on the efforts of Major-
General Issaku Nishihar: head of the Japanese Military Mission, to persuade General Rikichi Ando, commander of the Japanese South China Army, to hold off the military invasion of the French colony. General Nishihara sailed early this morning aboard a minesweepers for Hainan Island to visit Gen, Ando personally.
En route to Hainan, Gen. Nishihara requested eight Japanese transports, a cruiser and three destroyers, which were proceeding to Haiphong, not to force a landing. As Gen. Nishihara left on his mission in a last-minute effort to effect a peaceful settlement, the Franco-Japanese agreement signed here September 22 w: cancelled since it was considered that it could not be put into effect properly.
'The Japanese notified the French iey' would Taunch a major at-ud begin bombing Haiphong at dawn, but the Indo-China and Kwanigst border was reported quiet this morning. Both French and Japanese troops, however, contimied to face each other.
The French were reported to have recaptured Dongdang. The Anamite troops were showing up well against the Japanese, border reports said. The Japanese suffered heavy losses in their drive on Langson, an observer who returned from the border reported, French artillery. behind strong, cement fortifications at Langson table a heavy toll of the Japanese, said.
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