- Title: KHMER REPUBLIC AND THAILAND: FRENCH NATIONALS LEAVE PHNOM PENH FOR BANGKOK.
- Date: 19th March 1975
- Summary: 1. GV French Embassy building 0.05 2. CU French Embassy sign 0.08 3. CU Paris poster PULL OUT GV OF French evacuees 0.19 4. GV French evacuees check out 0.26 5. GV French evacuees talking (2 shots) 0.42 6. CU Cat PULL OUT TO GV French evacuees 0.46 7. GV Children 0.51 8. GV French evacuees waiting 0.56 9. GV Workmen loading belongings onto truck 1.04 10. GV Aircraft taxiing at Bangkok airport 1.07 11. CA Airport control tower 1.10 12. LV French evacuees into aircraft 1.20 Initials CL/1907 CL/1918 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 3rd April 1975 13:00
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- Location: PHNOM PENH AND BANGKOK
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- Country: Cambodia Thailand
- Reuters ID: LVA3HTJG9GSOLWB07EHO2KYFVCPP
- Story Text: With the communist forces tightening their grip on Phnom Penh, the French embassy has urged and supervised the evacuation of its nationals from the capital.
About 150 French citizens, including seven members of the embassy staff, left for Bangkok on Monday (17 March) on board two French air force evacuation flights. The bulk of the evacuees were businessmen, teachers and citizens holding French passports.
The evacuation of the embassy personnel meant the embassy was being downgraded to consular level.
Other signs of the deteriorating situation in Phnom Penh are evident following the decision by the United States Embassy to cut back on one of its largest relief agencies in the Khmer Republic ... the Catholic Relief Services. Most of the Agency's personnel have been evacuated.
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