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FRENCH TROOPS WHO FOUGHT IN MADAGASCAR. EXPOSURE OF ANTI-ALLIED PROPAGANDA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 20. Four hundred officers and men who fought against the British at Diego Suarez joined the Free French forces when their ship called at a British African port. This was announced today by the Free French headquarters in London, where it was added that the majority of these men belong to a regiment of Senagalese sharpshooters, France’s crack colonial infantry. One of their officers said: “My men in Madagascar had been the subject of intense anti-Allied propaganda. They were told that Britain wanted to seize the French empire, and that General de Gaulle was a traitor to France. On their way here they found for themselves numerous proofs to the contrary. They also heard of Bir Hachiem, and that was enough for them.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1942, Page 4
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