RETURNED TO BEIRUT
PRISONERS OF SYRIAN WAR
(Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 18,
A news agency messag- from Cairo which states that 38 British and Indian officers and 13 other ranks have returned to Beirut aftei seven weeks spent on trains and in boats, says that after being taken orisoners during the Syrian fighting they were tak«n through Aleppo, Athens. Salonika. Belgrade. Munich, Dijon, and Marseilles to Toulon, and returned by a similar route.
They were enthusiastically greeted by the French people, both in occupied and unoccupied Prance. One of the party said: "The French people universally condemn the Vichy regime At Toulon, extra guards were put on to prevent a pro-British demonstration."
Members of the party said that the Germans in France seemed to have enough food, but the French were short of rations and lacked tobacco, soap, and other commodities.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7
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