MIGRANTS FORM CONVOY TO REACH SOUTH AFRICA
Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, August 14. The fact that a party of Britisli people who are driving in a eonvo\ over the Sahara towards the Wesi Afiiean eoast on their way to ►South Africa, had been detained by lh>; Freneli Foreign Legion at a desert fort. has st.irred some romantic imagination.i : his week. The Britisli party was formed by 12 ex-servieemen with their families and a report received througi! a lettor, said that they had been heJ-l by the French for 22 days at For: Trinquet. The Freneli explained that 'hey had held the convov beeause ul extremelv dangerous travelling eonditions. It is stated that on August 1, the British slipped out of the fort hue the French sent a seareli party after them with extra water and eseorted them to Fort Gouraud where they arrived on August 12. They are expected to reach >St. Louis, capital of Senegal, at the end of the mouth.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1947, Page 5
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