TROOPS FOR EGYPT.
7000 INDIANS DISEMBARK
LONDON, August 13.
Seven thousand Indian troops who will land at Suez on Monday will be dispatched to the frontier between Egypt and Italian Libya.
It is reported from Bombay that members of the All-India Congress have been instructed not to attend the Central Government Legislature because Indian troops have been sent to Egypt and to Singapore in contravention of the declarations of the Congress and also the Central Assembly regarding the sending of soldiers abroad.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 190, 14 August 1939, Page 7
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