All concentration camps founded by Vichy in Northwest Africa Will be. finally liquidated by June 15, the State Department revealed today. The only persons remaining interned after that date will be Axis nationals confined following the Anglo-American landings last November.
Robert D. Murphy, the State Department’s chief representative in French Afric will visit the camps next week and expects to find them empty. The most important are in Algeria, where the Vichy regime used the inmates for work on the projected Trans-Saharan railway, which was designed to connect the Mediterranean ports with Dakar on the Atlantic, According to Murphy, prisoners have been released so fast in recent weeks that accurate figures are not yet compiled.
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