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REFUGEES FROM SPAIN
(British Official Wireless.) . (Received August 6, noon.)
RUGBY, August 5. Reports received in London state | that the British hospital ship Maine is today taking 150 refugees from Madrid and Valencia on the arrival at Valencia of the destroyer Basilisk. Fifteen nationalities were represented among 468 refugees, including the Norwegian and Venezuelan Ministers to Spain, which the cruiser Devonshire landed at Marseilles. The cruiser Shropshire is proceeding from Malta to take the Devonshire's place at Valencia. A British destroyer has taken members of the Swedish and Argentine Legations to St. Jean De Luz, and British, Swiss, [Norwegians, and Americans have been ievacuated from Santander. All, the British have now been taken from Ronda. The battleship Queen Elizabeth has left Gibraltar for Barcelona.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 9
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 9
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