HOSTAGES OF VICHY FRANCE
BRITONS BACK FROM MARTINIQUE.
P.A. Gable
. NEW YORK, Oct. 22.
A United Press correspondent at Port Castries (St. Lucia) says that 32 British seamen have arrived from Martinique. They told the authorities that they were held as hostages for flve months while the French made demands on London regarding other matters. The seamen were rescued by a French freighter after a German submarine had torpedoed their merchantman.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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71HOSTAGES OF VICHY FRANCE Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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