Hanoi, Sept. 26 APANESE troops announ ed their "peaceful" landing at Haiphong by first bombing the native quarter and causing fifteen casualties early this morning.
Japanese planes flew over the stragetic port and dropped four bombs on the native quarter: which is near the railway station The fifteen casualties were all natives, it s officially announced.
Almost 2,000 Japanese troops, including a column of tanks. landed at Haiphong and filed through the streets en route to a specially prepared garrison.
The troops landed ear! y this afternoon.
The Japanese troops were landed in Haiphong under agreement between the Japanese and French military authorities at Haiphong, The agreement signed last Sunday, it was revealed, provides for the landing of Japanese troops and the Japanese occupation of three airfields in Indo-China.
The agreement, however, do affect the northern border situation. Whether the Japanese troops now in Langson will advance toward Hanoi depends on the efforts of Major-General Issaku Nishihara, head of the Japanese military mission here. Gen. N hara is making efforts to persuade the Japanese South China Army not to violate the terms of the agreement reached here last Sunday. nos!
ies Terminated Vichy, Sept. 20.
Franco-Japanese hostilities on the northern border of French Indo-China have been terminated, the French Government announced here last night.
The French Foreign Ministry an-that Gen, Issaku Nishihara head of th panese military mission
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