A patrol of Laotian soldiers fron the "2nd paratroop Battalion are briefed on a hillside in Sam Neua Province, Laos, where communist infiltrators have occupied some 20 per cent of the province. supplies for the troops in the remote Northern Province, across the jungle hills from noth Vietnam, must be flown in and air droped. Skirmishes between the Royal Army and the Rdebels are light but frequent. 25 August 1959