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FRENCH SEAMEN DESERT LINER. UNAUTHORISED DEPARTURE AT BEIRUT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 2. . The Associated Press of Great Britain’s Cairo correspondent reports that 120 members of the crew of the French liner Providence dived overboard when the ship arrived at Beirut, from Toulon. It is learned that the Vichy authorities organised a camp at Toulon, from which crews were chosen to man ships going to Syria. It was believed that these men were Vichy supporters, but actually they were de Gaulle supporters, who had chosen this way tp escape from France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1941, Page 5
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100OPPORTUNITY TAKEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1941, Page 5
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