Show FRENCH BATTLE SIAMESE FLIERS SA V Indo China Frontier Dec 9 UP War UP-War War planes iden identified as as Siamese Thai j-Thai hal bombed and machine nachine gunned gunn-ed this frontier war town Monday and were engaged by French defense forces Following an exchange of fire between French millimeter 75 field guns and ancl small artillery across the Mekong river in in Thailand two enemy planes dived low over the town at 1030 a. a m. m bombing end and machine gunning the streets for 10 minutes No serious damage was reported Three fast French pursuit planes took off to oppose the bombing craft which dashed back to Thai Thai- land A second squadron of enemy planes approached d later latr Four Thailand planes had dropped 10 0 bombs Sunday afternoon afternoon after after- noon noo on capital of Laos I province S Reliable Informants said French I planes staged a reprisal raid on Thailand t territory at dawn Mon Mon- day dav Soon after the the artillery bombardment bombardment bom born was Vas opened the Siamese rained machine gun bullets through the area and started firing small field guns French aviators aviators- at art airplane base said that eight Thailand planes which they encountered during recent frontier incidents were exceedingly well flown They said the planes were foreign but not American make Experienced French pilots said the Thailand pilots pilots' flew as if it they had had plenty of ol experience Presumably the the implication was that the pilots might be Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese flying for Thailand nd |