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...HANOI, Indo-China--French forces defending Langson, important railroad center 82 miles northeast of here, were forced to withdraw from the city late today when attacking Japanese troops of the South China army encircled their positions...
...paper Japan had been granted the use of three Tonkin air bases and permission to transport 20,000 troops on the French-owned Indo-China Railway for a backdoor attack on China. It was to demand permission to transport 40,000 more troops and the free use of the great French naval base at Cam-ranh Bay that General Nishihara made his midnight call...
...French Indo-China itself open rebellion against Vichy, with 95% of the French colony backing General de Gaulle was reported. General Julien François René Martin, commanding the Indo-Chinese forces, announced that he would resign if the Japanese demands were granted. The Ile de France, interned at Singapore by the British while en route to French Indo-China with a cargo of airplanes, was reported at Saïgon, headquarters of pro-De Gaulle forces, with its cargo intact. British diplomatic circles even declared that Admiral Decoux had forsaken Vichy and cast his lot with De Gaulle...
Preparing for war with or against French Indo-China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek concentrated 120,000 local Chinese troops on his southern border with an additional 80,000 from his Chungking Army to form a rear guard. His sappers dynamited the 450-foot railway bridge spanning the Red River on the Indo-China-Yünnan border at Lao-Kay and Chinese labor crews began to take up the track of the Chinese portion of the French-owned railway for use elsewhere in China. One hundred and twenty small and large Japanese warships moved into the Gulf of Tonkin...
...French Indo-China was lost to Vichy, whether or not De Gaulle...