SUPPLIES FOR LIBERATED PRISONERS
THE R.A.F. LEND A HAND London, Sept. 9. ! R.A.F. Liberators and Dakotas from 1 a chain of airfields extending over l three thousand miles —the most northerly in eastern India, the most southerly in the Cocos Islands below the equator—have already ferried more I than 130 tons of supplies to liberated prisoners of war in the Dutch East , Indies, Singapore, Malay. Siam and i French Indo-China. R.A.F. crews from I the Cocos Islands sent ten tons of wel | fare supplies from their own stores. ; including tinned fruit and cigarettes , Several crews have lost their lives.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 September 1945, Page 5
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