EQUATORIAL AFRICA
LAMBARENE'S DECISION FOLLOWING DE GAULLE ELIZABETHVILLE, Nov. 6. The inhabitants of Lambarene offered to surrender to Genera] de Gaulle. A previous message read: —It is stated from Vichy that Free French forces are reported to have advanced 307 miles in Equatorial Africa through forest and brushwood from the Congo Valley, and have practically surrounded Lambarene. General Weygand is believed to be organising reinforcements, which will be rushed off by air.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24450, 8 November 1940, Page 7
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