LIVING LIKE BEASTS
WORKERS ON FRENCH DESERT RAILWAY LINKING DAKAR WITH NORTH AFRICA. TERRIBLE PICTURE OF DIRT & DISEASE. (By Tciograph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 25. Men forced to work op the French trans-Sahara Railway “live like beasts." This was said by Mr J. H. Westreich, a German-born refugee who worked for four months on the railway, which links Dakar with North Africa. ’ He added that 5.000 men who were forced to work on the railway were suffering from tropical diseases. They were alive with lice and fleas and' had little water to drink. The workers comprise French Foreign Legionaires and thousands of Jewish and Spanish Republican refugees.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1941, Page 6
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