French Prisoners Die On March
HANOI, July 15. Many French prisoners of war, captured by the Vietminh Communists at Dien Bien Phu, died during the exhausting 450 miles’ march to prisoner-of-war camps, the French High Command said today. ~ . The information came from sick and wounded prisoners who returned today from the Communist side, the C °A"nighCommand spokesman said ♦w innnn French Union prisoners, was led into the mountains in the “We region said today ma tQ June Jg a bin h « ? forced to marcn torren tlal ram. ankle deep id there was seldom F %Pto Se There wVre e no stretches, a few men were gxven ndes on buffaloes.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 7
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