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Artillery on both sides of the Mekong poured shells into the mountains, jungle and straw-thatched villages on the other side. Thai planes raided the Indo-Chinese towns of Pak-sé, Suvarnakhet. French planes bombed the Thai towns of Prachinburi, Aranya. Military communiqués reported fierce engagements in the borderland forests, casualties mounting as high as 600 in a single clash. Both sides claimed victory, but after four days of fighting the French authorities admitted that their troops had retreated 50 miles, and Bangkok announced that the Thai flag had been raised over Cambodia...
...battle was fought in the Gulf of Siam. Thai claimed that three French warships and probably the 7,880-ton French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet were sunk. Thai losses: none. The French claimed the sinking of one or two 2,000-ton Thai coast-guard ships and two, perhaps three, torpedo boats. French losses: none...
...depended upon TIME for accurate world news during the 15 years he was in Thailand, it was very shocking to see it describe (Dec. 30) the keen young son of the Thai Minister in Washington as being an "elegant figure in silken plus fours...
Second, Master Usni was wearing the national lower garment of the Thai people, a panung. It is worn by both men and women and is a piece of silk or other material about one by three yards. It is put on in such a manner that it does somewhat resemble trousers. But plus fours! No, TIME...
...country's population, are well-built, short-statured, brown-skinned, good-natured men, chewers of betel nut, waders in rice paddies, to whom the West has been exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still highly adventurous. Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern...