Brutal Treatment Of Refugees
(Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 29
The Perpignan correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that Anarchists and Communists control Puigcerda, which is full of starving refugees, the Loyalist colonel commanding having gone to France. Motorists, after travelling from Martaro to Gercna, say that bodies lie on the roadside all the way beside wrecked cars and trucks.
Aeroplanes, by bombing and ma-chine-gunning, have taken a terrible toll. The refugees death roll far exceeds the first estimate of a few hundred,
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Northern Advocate, 30 January 1939, Page 7
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