Word: duong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same everywhere that there has been conflict between French and Viet Minh. The town of Haï-duong, near Hanoi, was for a time Ho Chih-minh's headquarters and was recently taken by the French. It is the most utterly destroyed place since Lidice. Perhaps it is worse. Every building was burned or wrecked before the Viet Minh left. A favorite method is taking a pickax and weakening around the window frames of brick walls until they collapse...