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...Legion's next big job, it seemed last week, will be in pacifying French Indo-China. Two thousand of the total Legion personnel of 14,000 have already reached Saigon, and more are being hurried thither from Syria and Morocco. In Paris last week was His Excellency M. Pierre Pasquier, Governor General of French Indo-China, come at the urgent request of the High Colonial Council to discuss native unrest in his Far East bailiwick...
Douglas Fairbanks motored to San Francisco with a large number of guns and cameras great & small. There he planned to embark for the Protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China. His purpose: big-game hunting. He said he would call upon the Emperor of Japan, the King of Siam, the native rulers of Rajputana and Baroda...
Died. Thomas Edward Hambleton, 44, president of Hambleton & Co., Baltimore investment bankers, brother of the late Lieut.-Colonel John A. Hambleton who was vice president of Pan American Airways, killed last year in an airplane accident; by his own hand, after returning from a hunting trip to Indo-China and finding his wife had gone to Reno to seek divorce; in Lutherville...
...Indo-China was the only country where serious disturbance occurred. At Ganglong, Communists paraded in defiance of police orders. Casualties: three killed, ten wounded, 20 arrested...
...daism, a new religious cult in French Indo-China, was reported last week to be vexing the French authorities. Kao-daists say that the French control Indo-China because natives have been lax in religious observances, that the new cult will bring salvation. Organized four years ago by one Le-Van-Trung, 55, onetime Government councillor, Kao-daism now numbers more than 500,000 believers. To repress their nationalistic propaganda, authorities have been obliged to whip, shoot, bomb them...