SLOVENLY TREATMENT
BRITISH PRISONERS RETURNED FROM FRANCE (Reed. Aug. 18, 2.30 p.m.) CAIRO, Aug. 17. About 50 British officers andN.C.O.s who were removed from Syria and imprisoned in Toulon have now been sent back to Beirut. Reciprocally, a number of junior Vichy French officers, detained in Jerusalem, are being repatriated, but General Dentz, Vichy High Commissioner, and senior officers are being held until the remaining British prisoners, who are believed to number 35, are released. The Britons who have returned to Beirut described their treatment while travelling to Toulon as slovenly. They were given fourth-class accommodation in a steamer in which the food was bad and the quarters were buginfested. The barracks at Toulon were also verminous. By contrast they were well treated on the return journey to Beirut.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 9
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129SLOVENLY TREATMENT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 9
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