APPALLING PROBLEM.
PLIGHT OF 400,000 REFUGEES.
PARIS, Feb. 18.
Cabinet is to devote a day to .a discussion of M. Besson’s report on the appalling problem of the 400,000 Spanish refugees now in France. M. Besson, after a tour of the frontier, reported that 165,000 soldiers are living in makeshift shelters and some in holes dug in the damp sand. Thousands are subsisting on only bread and water. Because of the lack of shelter 12i per cent, of the refugees are ill. Discipline is also presenting difficulties. Several murders have occurred in the camps, and there are continued quarrels between rival factions. The refugees include 20,000 orphans.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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107APPALLING PROBLEM. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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