Miserable Plight of French West Africa
ALLIED STRANGLEHOLD ON DAKAR Received Sunday, 9.40 p.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 29. The New York Herald-Tribune’s cor; respondent on the West African coast says the plight of Dakar is pitiful as’ the 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 the interior towns live in danger of their lives. Virtually bo foodstuffs, clothing, tools, military equipment or petrol have reached Dakar in the last two years and tho reserve stocks are exhausted.
The correspondent points out that the weakened state of this oneo prosperous French colony contrasts sharply with the visible growth and strength of th£ neighbouring United Nations’ possessions.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 207, 31 August 1942, Page 4
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