@rench censors in Indo-China earlier this week passed foreign despatches which quoted French ofcials there as accusing the Japanese of exceeding the terms of the original agreement. French officials also were quoted as having said that the Japanese had virtually brought Tongkin province under Japanese military control)
Official quarters in Vichy said last night, that a complete report on the Indo-China situation had been received yesterday from Admiral Decoux. The report, it was said declared that the Japanese occupation of certain Indo-China areas was proceeding "according to the terms of the pact."
"Special Privilege"
Admiral Decoux was said to have reported that Japanese air forces, with protective land forces, had Occupied three French aerodromes from which they intended to begin bombing China.
The Governor-General also was said to have reported that he had [himself exceeded the terms of the treaty by granting the Japanese "exceptional privileges" connected with the stationing of several hundred Japanese troops in Hanoi to guard. the headquarters of the head of the Japanese military mission, Originally, French officials said, there was no provision made for the Japanese 1o occupy Hanoi, but the French decided to permit this as a "special favour" in return for the release of French troops captured by the Japanese south China army when tt fought its way into Indo-China from the north.
French forces in Hanoi it was said here, are sufficiently strong to outnumber the Japanese forces now stationed there—United Press.
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