WELCOMED BY FRENCH
BRITISH PRISONERS VICHY REGIME OPPOSED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 18. An -agency message from Cairo states that 38 British and Indian officers and 13 other ranks have returned to Beirut after seven weeks spent on trains and in boats. After being taken prisoners during the fighting in Syria, they were taken 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 France. 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 the Germans in France seemed to have enough food but the French were short of rations.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20638, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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