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DAKAR AND OTHER BASES IN WEST AFRICA. “
STATEMENT BY M. BOISSON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, February 5. M. Boisson, Governor-General of French West Africa, said in an interview at Algiers, according to a correspondent at Allied headquarters, that the Allied navies were already using the port facilities at Dakar.' All ports and airfields in West Africa were open to the Allies, and several British vessels had made use of the docks at Dakar. M. Boisson denied that the Germans had ever had Dakar. He told General Giraud that 10,000 native troops were available, and that the number could be trebled but for the shortage of European officers and equipment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1943, Page 3
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