REUNION ISLAND
OCCUPIED BY BRITISH FORCES. ACCORDING TO VICHY. LONDON, November 23.. British forces, including South Africans, landed on Reunion Island, nearly 400 miles east of Madagascar, and seized the town of Saint Denis, says a Vichy communique, which adds that resistance elsewhere is being organised. The attacks, says Vichy, are under the orders of General de Gaulle. Martial law has been proclaimed. The population is calm. A 8.8. C. announcement says there is no confirmation in London of the reported occupation of Reunion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1942, Page 3
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84REUNION ISLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1942, Page 3
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