DEFENCE OF DAKAR
AGAINST POSSIBLE LAND ASSAULT. VICHY MUSTERING NATIVE TROOPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) LONDON, October 20. Native troops in French Guinea are reported to be preparing defence positions along the Sierra Leone border against a possible Allied advance against Dakar from Freetown, in the south, says the Madrid correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” Observers say that a land assault against Dakar through French Guinea and Senegal would be resisted mainly by natives, who would lack tanks. Intensive training of new Senegalese battalions has been in progress in the last 18 months, and it seems fairly obvious that Marshal Petain’s recent conferences with military and naval officials were concerned with the defence of Dakar.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1942, Page 3
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115DEFENCE OF DAKAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1942, Page 3
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