With sympathy and support, Chang decided to receive and train the Vietnamese revolutionists. He first received a unit of the Phu Quoc army led by Hoang Luong and Nong Kinh Du. The French authorities asked Chang to return the men. Chang rejected the request and later set up a Vietnam Special Training Class in Liuchow for them. Then he sent Truong Boi Cong to Chinghsi (about 600 miles from Liuchow and 65 miles from Vietnam) to organize a border work team for enlisting other political refugees.

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Officials are used to finding graffiti on the priceless fixtures and fittings in the House of Commons chamber. Teams of French polishers regularly repair damage caused by tourists. But during a recent examination they noticed that the beautifully-carved government Dispatch Box was covered in strange black pen marks. At the next Prime Ministers Questions they stood watch, and caught the culprit in the act. As Gordon Brown gesticulated wildly with his black marker pen, stabbing at the papers in front of him and missing to hit the wood beneath, the awful truth was clear. The PM was the vandal. […] The boxes were a gift from New Zealand after the rebuilding of the House of Commons following the Second World War. The are modelled on the dispatch boxes in the Australian parliament and are made from a strong, teak-like wood from the rare Puriri tree and were thought to be almost indestructible.

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