GREAT MIGRATION
SPANISH REFUGEES
FIRST BATCH TO FRANCE
LONDON, May 3.
The preparations for the evacuation of women and children from Bilbao may result in the greatest oceanic migration in history. The Spanish steamer Habana (10,551 tons) is now at Nervion and will carry the first batch to France on May 4. Three thousand children capable of maintaining themselves will be taken on the first trip, together with 800 to be maintained in France by the General Confederation of Labour, which has agreed.to provide for a total of 2300.
Mrs. Leah Manning, representing the Spanish Relief Committee, has telegraphed Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of the Trades Union Congress, asking whether the Trades Union Council is willing to do likewise.
The Sota family has placed a steam yacht at the service of the Basque Government for humanitarian purposes.
These and other ships, convoyed by the British Navy, will fly St. George's Cross as a special flag "and as a compliment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 11
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