In the following months, a variety of sourcesreported landings on Cambodia's west coast. On 13 March, Sihanouk announced that a "Red Khmer" chieftain captured in Battambang had said that the vessel captured off Kampot was only one of "six boatloads" of arms and ammunition smuggled to the rebels. in Ilay, the first of a series of agent reports appeared which told of junks landing in southern' Koh Kong. The reports stated the junks unloaded arms and men, including Cambodians and Vietnamese, who marched inland towards the Elephant Chain Mountains after scrambling ashore. By November 1969, over a thousand men and several tons of ammuniton had landed, the agents said