PLIGHT OF DAKAR
Result Of Allied Blockade
(Received August 30, 8.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. August 29.
The “Herald-Tribune” correspondent on the West African coast, says that the plight of Dakar is pitiful.as a result of the Allied blockade and lack of transportation. The native population in the back country is so impoverished and dissatisfied that the authorities are constantly threatened with rebellion -and whites in towns in the interior live in danger of their lives. Virtually no foodstuffs, clothing, tools, military equipment or petrol have reached Dakar in the last two years, and reserve stocks are exhausted The correspondent point's out that the weakened state of this once-pros-perons French colony contrasts sharply with the visible growth and strength of neighbouring United Nations’ possessions. ‘
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 285, 31 August 1942, Page 6
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123PLIGHT OF DAKAR Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 285, 31 August 1942, Page 6
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