"LIVE LIKE BEASTS”
WORKERS ON FRENCH TRANSSAIIARA RAILWAY (Rec., 11.35 a.m.) New York, Aug., 25. Men forced to work on the French Trans-Sahara Railway “live like beasts.” This was said by Mr J. H. Westreich, a German-born refugee who worked for four months on the railway which links Dakar with North Africa. He added that the 5000 men who are forced to work on the railway were suffering from tropical diseases. They are alive with lice and fleas and have little water to drink. The workers comprise French foreign legionaires and thousands of Jewish and Spanish Republican refugees.—U.P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 26 August 1941, Page 5
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