PITIFUL PLIGHT OF DAKAR
RESULT OF ALLIED BLOCKADE POPULATION IMPOVERISHED AND DISSATISFIED New York, Aug. 29. The "New York Herald-Tribune” correspondent on the West African coast says the plight of Dakar is pitiful as a result of the Allied blockade, and lack of transportation. Native population in the back country is so impoverished and dissatisfied that the authorities are constantly threatened with rebellion and whites in interior towns 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 points out that the weakened state of this once prosper, ous French colony contrasts sharply with the visible growth in strength of neighbouring United Nations’ possessions.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 31 August 1942, Page 5
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