SHIPPING SPACE FOR HORSES
(British Official Wireless.) . (Received August 23, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, August 22. It was suggested iu a question in the House of Commons by Mr. IV. Gallacher (Communist) that shipping space which might have been used for the evacuation of children overseas had been taken up by racehorses, and the attention of the Minister of Shipping was called to the case of 12 horses recentlv dispatched in a single ship. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping. Sir Arthur Salter, who replied, pointed out that these ships and their fittings were originally intended for the transport of horses and the ships were quite unsuitable for carrying children.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 12
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111SHIPPING SPACE FOR HORSES Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 12
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