MARTINIQUE WANTS TO HELP
(Rec. 11 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 22. Fighting French headquarters has announced that Major Sarrat, commander of the French garrison in Martinique, has escaped and has joined the forces of the Fighting French. Thei announcement quoted him as saying that since the American landings in North Africa the bulk of French Martinique has been openly hostile to the Vichy Government, and several hundred persons have petitioned Admiral Robert, French High Commissioner in Martinique, urging the re-entry of the French Caribbeans into tlie fighting against the Axis. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5
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