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...French were regrouping in a beachhead around Hanoi and the nearby port of Haiphong. They were pulling out of difficult mountain and jungle terrain for the flat, open, rice-rich lower Red River valley. They hoped to hold a perimeter extending 160 miles around the river's mouth. They were waiting for U.S. tanks and planes and troops from France...
...Both Hanoi and Haiphong are ghost cities. Only 17,000 of Hanoi's 100,000 Annamites remain in the city...
Necessary Effort. The French garrison mopped up most of Hanoi and fought off heavy counterattacks, but found it hard to get out except by air. Other garrisons in Tonkin were besieged. The rebels shelled Haiphong on Tonkin's coast, and Hue on Annam's coast. The French fought with planes and tanks; the rebels answered with mines, boobytraps, snipers and ambushes. The rebels claimed that Germans in the French Foreign Legion were deserting; the French answered that Japs in the Vietnamese army were committing harakiri...
...Chungking the Chinese Government signed a new treaty with France. The weakened Fourth Republic gave up its old extraterritoriality rights in China. It also agreed to special privileges for China in French Indo-China-a free port at Haiphong and railway rights from the Indo-China coast to the South China hinterland...
...Viet Nam movement was an internal Indo-Chinese affair; while China would not recognize the native "provisional government," neither would it interfere with it. The spokesman also hinted that China wanted a voice in the operation of the French-owned railway that runs from the Indo-Chinese port of Haiphong to Kunming in China's southern hinterland...