HELD AS HOSTAGES
32 BRITISH SEAMEN IN
MARTINIQUE
(Rec. 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 22
The United Press correspondent at Port Castries, St. Lucia, says that 32 British seamen who arrived from Martinique told the authorities that they had been held as hostages for five months while the French made demands on London regarding other matters.
The seamen were rescued by a French freighter after a German submarine torpedoed their merchantman.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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71HELD AS HOSTAGES Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 99, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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