Afeauvhite, authoritative Chinese ive les here reported the concentra. tion of more than five crack divisions fof Chinese troops equipped with, Teavy artillery along the -Kwangst border, They British ConsulsGeneral for Indo-China, Me. W, Bruce Henderson, tokay authorised the United Press to deny tie Japanese radio. broadcast from Tokyo quoting the British Miuis= ter to Thailand as saying that, the British Government was eympathotic toward Thailand's territorial demands. against Indo-China United Press, Savannakhet, Dee, French seventy-fives blazed into sation at 7.45 oan, today somewhere near Savantiakhet, hurling more than 30. shells across the Mekong River T watched the activity from trench on the banks of the Mekong and was told that the shells were directed against the Thailand airport across the river.
'The Siamese were replying toward 'Savannakhet, sweeping-the town with machine-gun' bullets and firing "small artillery into French Indo-China, French native soldiers who were Jolling under the tropical trees this morning slipped into position at the sound of fung, while the post once and other administrative emees con= Uinued business uninterrupted, From the trench, 1 could faintly: spot figures on the Thailand bani of the river and also saw some yel lowsrobed priests alonit the bank of the river, T could faintly discern battery of 105 howitzers, was reliably reported that French planes carried out reprisals this "morning following yesterday's That bombing raid on Vientine, capital of Laos,
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