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Received. Sunday, 8 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 29. Marines and sailors.from the cruisei -Sheffield have estahlished 'hrep-ghn «ntrenclhnents around Belize airfieid anu narhour. The colony's Home Guard has heen -alerted. ' The Govenior, Sir Edward Hawksworth. said everything was cairn and ander control. ' ' The whole native population is hehind us," he said. Sir William Tennant, commanding the British forces, sent a detachment of Marines to thc Guatemala horder to "show the hag " . The cruiser Devonshire will arrive at Jelize tomorrow. The Guatemalan Government saiU the British had dispatched a third cruiser, the Sparrow, to the waters qi British Honduras.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 March 1948, Page 5
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