Fighting French Report All Well
p. 43 · Read in the full issue
RADIOS received by the families of some of the New Caledonian Vol unteers, who were fighting in the Western Desert at the beginning of Aug ust, report that Rene Petre. Paul Dacoin Georges Cettia, Eugene Pene, Adelphe and Adrien de Geoffrey, Yves Boyer, and Louis Viratel are safe, after the heroic
defence of Bir Hacheim by the Fighting- French.
Andre Petre was posted as missing.
Cordier Alexandre cabled that he and Louis Anger are convalescing at Beirut (Syria).
Berlin Radio claimed that the number of Fighting French captured at Bir Hacheim was nearly 2,000.