TRAPPED IN EUROPE
BRITONS AND AMERICANS. (Rec. 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, April 29. Europe is fast becoming scaled tor refugees wishing to go to America, and British subjects trying to return home arc little better off, says the Daily Alail’s Lisbon correspondent. Between three and four hundred British people are in Lisbon awaiting repatriation apart from the resident ixipulation and 1500 more in Unoccupied France. Most of the Britons are drawing a consular allowance of £lO a month, which is repayable, beveii thousand refugees hooked b.v sea by American Export Line ships will take a year to clear and no more bookings are being accepted except for Americans who have proiority.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 8
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