PARCELS VIA SPAIN
COMFORTS FOR WAR PRISONERS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 11. Answering a question in the House of Commons regarding the dispatch of parcels to British war prisoners via Lisbon, the Under-Secretary for War said that the representative of the House of Commons on the war organisation of the British Red Cross Society was now in Lisbon and had reported that on November 3 none, of the organisation's parcels had been lost in Lisbon. Parcels totalling 300,000 were due to arrive in December.
The parcels were not unduly delayed in Lisbon, the average time being five days. The main delays were between the Portuguese-Spanish frontier and Germany. Urgent measures were being taken to help the International Bed Cross Committee at Geneva to overcome these delays. Parcels were not arriving in considerable numbers, and it was hoped to obtain a considerable acceleration in the near future.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1940, Page 7
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