Word: indo-china
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...Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces 200,000 of the best troops China possesses fingered their rifles last week, awaiting a showdown in the game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...
Brusquely they issued an ultimatum demanding air and naval stations in French Indo-China and the right to transport more troops across the peninsula for a backdoor attack on China. There were rumors that they wanted to subdivide the country into a northern, Japanese-controlled state, a central buffer, and a southern, French-controlled section...
...show they meant business they ordered the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Indo-China, began moving them to the port city of Haiphong. Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of the mission, gravely warned: "When I leave French territory you may say the crisis has been reached." But the same day Japan backed down again, then announced that the negotiations were again going along smoothly. The Foreign Office in Tokyo glibly denied that there had ever been any ultimatum anyway...
...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...
...French Indo-China was lost to Vichy, whether or not De Gaulle...