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RETURN TO CIYILISATION I AFTER TEN YEARS' j CAPTIVITY. ARAB SLAVERY. | i I Tangiers, Oetober 8. Members of a colony of captive Legionaries, who have laboured un- | der Arab' taskmasters in the burning j heat of the desert land were forgotten by the world for 10 years, are now beginning to> find their way back to civilisation. The first intimation of th'eir existence came three months ago, when an ex-Legionary, Lopez Exposito, given up many years ago las dead, staggered into the town of Villa Cisneros and told a curious story. Villa Cisneros is the Spanish garrison town on the south-west coast of Morocco. The exhausted exLegionary poured forth a tale of captivity among rebel Arab tribes on the fringe of the Siahara. Not only himself, he said, but also Le'gionaries ■belonging to all nationalities, were captive there and working under eonditions of virtual slavery. Shortly after this, a Jew named Aaron Gohen laxrived from TafiLete in the French zone, with the same tsory. A Spanish ■commission to'ok up th'e matter and now, after much negotiation and the help of friendly Sheiks in the Sahara, ithe first party of ex-Legionaries is .expected to arrive at Cap Juby, near - | Villa Cisneros, in a few days. 'fYLD cushion covers made like new with Fairy Dyes.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 701, 29 November 1933, Page 7
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