THIRTY-EIGHT RETURN TO BEIRUT
CAPTURED BRITISH AND INDIAN SOLDIERS EXPERIENCES IN FRANCE »Rec.. 10.30 a.m.; Rugby, Aug., 18. An agency message from Cairo states i that 38 British and Indian officers and 13 other ranks returned to Beirut after seven weeks spent on trains and in boats. After being taken prisoners during the Syrian fighting they were taken Aleppo. Athens, Salonika. Belgrade. Munich, Dijon and Marseilles to Toulon and returned by a similar route. They were enthusiasticaly greeted by the French people who 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 8.0. W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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