BRITISH PRISONERS
RELEASED BY VICHYITES
<Rec. 1 p.m.) CAIRO, August 17.
About 50 British officers and n.c.o.s, who were removed from Syria and made prisoners at Toulon, have now been sent back to. Beirut.
Consequently a number of junior Vichy officers now detained in erusalem are being repatriated, but General Dentz and the senior officers are being held until the remaining British prisoners, who are believed to number 35, are released.
Britons who have returned to Beirut described their treatment while travelling to Toulon as "slovenly." They were given fourth-class accommodation on a steamer in which the food was bad and their quarters were buginfested. The barracks at Toulon was also verminous.
By contrast, they were well treated on the return journey to Beirut.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8
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