Money and Food for Child Refugees
(Received 3 p.m.) ' . RUGBY, January 24. The British Government is making an immediate payment of £20,000 to the International Commission for the assistance of child refugees in Spain; ! This payment is an advance in respect to a further contribution to the funds of the Commission. The British. Government has already given £20,000 to the fund, which also received £25,000, from the other Governments and wheat from the United States to the value of £37.000.
In addition, other Governments have already promised further contributions totalling £85,000, while the United States has promised to send wheat to the probable value of £60,000 for six months.
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Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 9
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109Money and Food for Child Refugees Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 9
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