The Archive · 1941

Hanoi Preparations Worry Japan

Admiral Decoux Said to Be Preparing to Meet Any Emergencies

Hanoi, Feb, 22, Japanese authorities in Indo-China g with growing concert reparations being made by orities in Tonkin.

Coupled with orders by Vice-admiral Jean Decoux, Governor-eneral, directed to Tonkin to pre-[pare against all possible emergency jin view of "approaching danger, French airmen who recently a Haiphong, were assigned to dut ases near Saigon.

French war materials are also being rushed to Hanoi from Haiphong daily.

Vice-Admiral Decoux previously ordered all able-bodied youths stand by for possible mobilization in civil defence, and asked for reports on stocks of foodstuffs and agricultural products on it was hand, learned,—Domei Ix his cheery autobiography, "Years of Content," Sir George Leveson-Gower, Lord Granville's uncle, tells of a Highland butler who learned to speak English through hard study of the Bible. Sir George heard him announcing his master's carriage: unto thee, the chariot

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