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NAZI TROOPS FOR LIBYA NUMEROUS BASES USED ASSISTANCE FROM VICHY (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 13. German troops and mechanised units were transported to Libya with the assistance of Vichy, says the Lisbon correspondent of the News-Chronicle Movements of troops began on February 6 and were carried out gradually by ships and planes from numerous bases, including French as well as Italian ports. Thirty-five thousand troops were carried by air from Marignane aerodrome, near Marseilles, where they assembled secretly. Heavy material, believed to be enough to equip five armoured divisions, was concentrated at Marseilles, Toulon, Genoa. Leghorn. Naples and Sicily, and transferred by ships to Libya. Ships from France and northern Italy crossed at night to Bizerta to avoid British patrols watching the Sicilian Channel from the cast side. By this means 124 ships reached Tripoli, using French territorial water's.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24607, 15 May 1941, Page 7
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