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Show JAPAN MOVES TROOPS SOUTH SAIGON, French Indo-Chlna, Jan. 29 WPi Reports of new Japanese Jap-anese military moves in the north and south of French Indo-Chlna heightened anxiety here Wednesday Wednes-day in prelude to Japanese-led negotiations ne-gotiations over frontier fighting between Indo-Chlna and Thailand. It was said that Japanese troop transports had been seen apparently appar-ently headed for a rendezvous with warships off the southern coast of Indo-China. In the north, other Japanese forces moved Into Hal-duong, Hal-duong, within 33 miles of the capital cap-ital at Hanoi. Although fighting continued as late as 1 p. m. Tuesday along the disputed Thai-Indo-China border, where an armistice was to have been effective three hours before, there was no move to call off discussions dis-cussions between representatives of both countries In search of a peaceful settlement Each side blamed the other for continuance of the hostilities. Parley Cruiser est Hand The Japanese cruiser Katorl, aboard which the negotiators arranged ar-ranged to meet General Raishiro Svmlta, Japanese negotiator, was tied up at the Saigon waterfront. (Reports from .Tokyo said the conference would take place aboard the cruiser at sea off Saigon.) There was no explanation here of the concentration ot Japanese warships off Cape St. Jacques, 50 miles southeast of Saigon. The ships were identified as an aircraft carrier, two cruisers and two torpedo tor-pedo boats. The Japanese troop move In the north was declared here by the French to be an unprovoked violation vio-lation of the French-Japanese pact worked out at the Hanoi conference confer-ence of September 22. Granted Troop Bights That agreement, over which a "misunderstanding" touched off fighting between French and Japanese Jap-anese along the northern frontier, granted Japan the use of three air bases in northern Indo-Chlna and the right to land a "limited" number num-ber of troops at Haiphong, the port east of Hanoi, and to garrison garri-son the air bases with 6000 troops. Sources here declared the agreement agree-ment made no provision for moving Japanese soldiers Into the market town of Hatduong on the road from Haiphong to Hanoi. Dispatches from Hanoi said French-Japanese trade negotiations at Tokyo already had resulted In an agreement to export urgently needed rice to Japan, but that little lit-tle other progress had been made. An informant arriving from Tokyo, where he was associated closely with the French trade mission, mis-sion, said it was doubtful if the negotiations would be concluded in less than two months. |