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...Instead of throwing all his forces against several hundred thousand French Union and Vietnamese troops bottled up in the Red River delta and in the airstrip at Nasan, Giap began probing the defenses of Laos with his Viet Minh commandos. In his exquisite white palace overlooking the palm-fringed Mekong River, aging (67), crew-cropped King Sisavang Vong told the French: "This is my country; this is my palace; I am too old to tremble before danger." Not until three of Giap's crack divisions appeared at Laos' borders last week did King Sisavang Vong call...
...Lane Xang (the Land of a Million Elephants), is the Shangri-La of Southeast Asia. It is mistily mountainous, covered with tiger-haunted jungle and elephant-inhabited rain forest, and can only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their hair, the Laotian women...
...repaired and loaded by French troops. At Marseilles, the Empire Marshal had generator trouble; crewmen noticed that another British ship in the harbor, also bound for Indo-China, had mysterious generator trouble, too. The voyage to Indo-China was trouble-free, but at the mouth of the Mekong River, four hours from Saigon, French soldiers boarded the ship, cleared the decks and set up machine guns. They explained that the Communists commanded both sides of the river. The crew saw a French ship, disabled by a Communist mine, being towed upstream...
...battalion of the Foreign Legion; 2) two battalions of Vietnamese and Annamite units; 3) two batteries of 25-pounders; 4) a squadron of the small amphibious vehicles called "Weasels." A tiny navy of LCMs and LCVPs (small landing craft) under Ensign Pierre Le-corche was ordered to hold the Mekong River line...
...During May'to October, floodwaters, backing up on the delta, cause the last 240 miles of the Mekong to flow backwards into Lake Tonle Sap in Cambodia...