Resort to the use of poison gas French troops engaged in bitter fighting this morning with Japanese troops advancing into northern Indo-China following all-night spasmodic engagement! the vicinity of Dong-dang, was alleged in a report from the Japanese Forces in South China, The Japanese forces were first fired upon when they crossed the border shortly after midnight after a Japan-se officer had on Sunday afternoon personally notified the commander of the French forces in the Dongdang area of their intention to proceed under the terms of the Franco-Japan: ese agreement reached in Hanoi by handing him the note near the Kwangse border south of Chennankwan, it was declared.
Returning the fire Japanese troops continued toward Dongdang and were again challenged by French troops who this time, it was erred resorted to the use of po gas.
Japanese forces ov me the French opposition, occupying a strategic hill south of Dongdang this morning.
The commander of the Japanese forces was reported to have declared that he "deeply regretted the of the French troops who wer the Ji se to engage in unwanted hestilities.""—Domet,
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