ALLIED OFFICERS
REACH SYRIA FROM FRANCE
Rec. 5.30 p.m. BEIRUT. Aug. 15., A contingent of Allied officers I totalling approximately a quarter of ' the prisoners of war taken to France , from Svria. has arrived at Beirut' [from Marseilles under the armistice | I agreement. I The officers, after their capture, j ! were flown from Beirut to Athens. ■ and later passed through Yugoslavia. Austria and Germany. In Germany thev saw prison camps containing British and French soldiers. The) French appeared harshly treated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 1 (Supplement)
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