VICHY CLAIM
REGARDING OPERATIONS IN MADAGASCAR. POSITIONS SUCCESSFULLY HELD. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON. October 20. A Vichy communique states: “A British attack on October 19 against positions in the Ambositra sector was preceded by a systematic bombardment, in which a thousand shells were dropped on our improvised trenches. Our tro'ops, although hard pressed from every side, obliged the enemy to retreat.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1942, Page 4
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66VICHY CLAIM Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1942, Page 4
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