CHILDREN FROM BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23080, 24 July 1940, Page 9

CHILDREN FROM BRITAIN

PLANS FOR REFUGE IN U.S. (Received July 23, 7 pan.) LONDON, July 22. “You want the children—come and get them,” said the London American committee for the Evacuation of Child, ren in a cablegram to the American Women’s Committee, asking for the release of ships for the conveyance o£ European children. The cablegram added that funds were available here for the passage expenses for poorer children and the machinery for selection for dispatch was established. . The message adds that in the present circumstances there is little prospect of more than a few thousand children ' reaching safety. American ships, it was , stated, could break this log-jam. An amendment to the United States' Neutrality Bill, to allow the use of American ships to take British children to safety, was introduced in the House of Representatives to-day by Representative Thomas C. Hennings, jun. GIBRALTAR’S DEFENCES ROME, July 22. The Italian newspaper “Giomale dTtalia” publishes reports from Madrid that the British garrison at Gibraltar has been reinforced with men and materials, bringing the personnel to 10,000. Large quantities of armaments and munitions, especially for the antiaircraft defences, have arrived.