CONVOY INCIDENT
FRENCH ADMIRALTY COMMUNIQUE TRANSACTION BETWEEN COLONIES. DENIAL OF BRITISH CLAIMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) VICHY. March 31. The French Admiralty, in a communique, states that a considerable British naval force, in French territorial waters betwen Nemours and Oran, attacked a convoy of four French merchantmen bound from Casablanca to Oran under the escort of a single French destroyer. The convoy sheltered off Nemours under the protection of its escort, shore batteries and aircraft, which replied to the fire of the aggressors and drove them off.
The French official news agency states that the convoy's cargo consisted exclusively of food supplies for the native population of Algeria—rice, sugar and barley. All the evidence and the route followed by the ships along the Algerian coast went to show that it was a transaction between two French possessions. Therfore the attack by British warships could not be explained by the necessities -of the blockade.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 5
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152CONVOY INCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 5
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