BILBAO REFUGEES

Evening Star, Issue 22648, 14 May 1937, Page 9

BILBAO REFUGEES

CHILDREN LANDING IN ENGLAND TEMPORARY CANVAS GAMP FOR 4.000 I Pres* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 13. (Received May 14, at 1 a.m.) Four thousand child refugees from Bilbao, mostly orphans, will be received at Southampton and accommodated in a canvas camp in a 30-acre field at North Stoneham until homes are available. The Catholic Church will take 1,000 and the Salvation Army 400 children. REBEL SUCCESS CLAIMED BASQUES LOSE HEAVILY. LONDON, May 13. (Received May 14, at 11.15 a.m.) A Salamanca communique says that more than 1,000 Basques were killed in the battle for Bizcargi, a range west of Guernica, which the insurgents captured. AID TO LOYALISTS NEW ZEALAND NURSES FAREWELLED [Pan United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 13. On the eve of a great adventure, Nurse Isabella Dodds and Nurse Millicent Sharpies, who*have been, selected by the Spanish Relief Committee to render nursing aid to the loyalists fighting in Spain, bade farewell to-night to a small meeting of friends and supporters in Wellington. With Sister R. Shadbolt, of Auckland, they are to leave for Auckland on Saturday, fully equipped with drugs and dressings, and will sail by the Awatea on May 19 on the first stage of the joufney. The speakers to-night included Professor H. B. Kirk, Matron A. H. Cookson, and representatives of Socialist organisations and the Spanish Relief Committee. An appeal was made for support in raising money to send additional assistance to Spain.