Saigon, Jan. 30, Major-General Raishiro Sumita, lof of te Jppanese military mission to French Intio-China and Chairman of the Japanese delegation, presented the conditions for armistice to the French Indo-China and Thal delega-tons at the armistice negotiations which began yesterday at six o'clock aboard the Japanese warship in har-hour here, Replies of French Indo-China and Thailand are expected to be handed to Major-General Sumita today.
Well informed circles expressed the belief that Thailand will accept the forms, but the attitude of the French Indo-China delegation is held un-
Thai Delegates Chosen Bangkok, Jan, 30.
The That delegates to the armistice conference with French Indo-China to be held at Tokyo are leaving for Tokyo by air on February 2, it was announced here, "The delegation will be headed by Prince Varvaldyakara Varavara, ad~ viser to the Foreign Ministry, and will include Colonel Luang Tevarit Paruluk, Chief of the Air Staff and Commander Luang Somburana Yudhavija, Naval Attache to the Legation in Tokyo, The date for the conference has not yet been fixed—Reuter, n, pte ate See seas ears Tear nh ube one Thailand, French Armistice Signed Seigon, Jan. 31.
The That-French Indo-China arristice was signed today at © pan. Ehoard the Japanese wareip Natori inthe horeour here.
The armistice provided for mutual withdrawals of (reaps on both sides rom present. fighting ines -and establishment of a 20 kilometre bulTer zone between them, Armistice terms will" apply until the final peace settlement is ne gallated in Tokyo.
French and Thai delegates to the armistice negotiations and Japanese Mediators toasted each other with champagne after signing the document which formally ended hostilities begun on November 27, 1940, The armistice calls for the creation of the buffer zone within 72. hours.
'Troops of each country are to withdraw ten kilometres from the posi-ions they occupied' when fighting ceased officially at 10 am. last Tues-
Thal troops, However, even afler withdrawing ten kilometres will occupy one area in Laos Province and several minor areas in Cambodia Province in Indo-China because their thrusts took them further than ten kilometres into French territory.
The armistice terms also fixed a line in the Gulf of Siam which neither the Thal nor French navies. will be allowed to cross. Neither Thal nor French planes will be permitted to Ay over the buffer zone.
The Thai and French delegates accopied Japanese proposals presented to them last Wednesday.
The armistice will only remain valid until the final peace terms are agreed fon in the negotiations to be held at Tokyo. The armistice terms, how= ever. may be prolonged only upon {Ye agreement of all three Powers.
The Japanese armistice delegation ehall control the execution. of. the armistice terms, with both Indo-China end Thailand promising the Japanese the necessary facilities.
With the armistice concluded. attention here now turned to Tokyo, where the peace negotiations will be pened shortly.
'The fate of Indo-China's southern'
bases and airfields probably.
be decided in Tokyo, where already negotiations are being held between Japanese and the French regarding Indo-China's economy, Japan probably will make a bid for the southern Indo-China naval and sir bases as a reward for mediation {in the Thal and Indo-China hostilities, informed quarters believed. ese were most anxious to open the peace negotiations in Tokyo without any delay—United Press.
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