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AND HELD AS HOSTAGES GENERAL GIRAUD’S DAUGHTER & CHILDREN. REMOVED FROM TUNIS. TO GERMANY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) RUGBY, May 14. . A Russian correspondent reports that when General Giraud visited Tunis he learned that his daughter and two grandchildren, aged three and four, had been removed to Germany as hostages. They were living in Tunis when the Germans landed in November and had since been kept under close observation. A few weks ago they were taken from their homes and are believed to have been transported to Germany by air. General Giraud’s son-in-law went with the general in the expectation of meeting his wife and children and not until they arrived did they learn the truth.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1943, Page 2
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