LARGE CONVOY
REPORTED DEPARTURE PROM GIBRALTAR UNDER COVER OF SMOKESCREEN. ACCORDING TO VICHY REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.15 p.m.) VICHY. March 11. The Havas Agency’s Algeciras correspondent states that a large convoy, under cover of a smokescreen, departed from Gibraltar. It included an aircraft-carrier, a battleship, a cruiser. five destroyers, two large transports and nineteen merchantmen. General Weygand arrived at Algiers by air yesterday. Explaining the secrecy of his departure, the censor said he did not want a repetition of the Chiappe incident.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1941, Page 6
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86LARGE CONVOY Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1941, Page 6
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