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Former Crews of Warships And One Merchantman Lisbon, Sept. 7 Three hundred French naval ratings, under Commander de Pom-pignon, left Lisbon on Thursday night for Cerbere, France, abroad a special train chartered by the French Legation here Most of the men formerly belonged to the crews of the warships Pas-r, Normandie and Saint Malo d arrived here in Lisbon on July 29.

most of them from the! United States aboard a Greek ship.

Thirty of the men, Mowever, belonged to French merchantmen caught in Lisbon by the Armistice and compelled by the British blockade to remain here.—Havas.

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