Appalling State Of 400,000 Refugees
PARIS, February 18. The French Cabinet is devoting today to a discussion on a report by M. Besson, on the appalling problem of the 400,000 Spanish refugees. After a tour of the frontier, M, Besson reported that 165,000 soldiers were living in makeshift shelters and some in holes dug in the damp sand. Thousands were subsisting only on bread and water. Owing to lack of food and shelter, 12J per cent, of the refugees are ill. Discipline i's presenting difficulty.
Several murders have , occurred in camps, and there are continual quarrels between rival factions.
The refugees include 20.000 orphans,
French Government tugboats are dumping into the sea all munitions taken from Spanish Republican soldiers entering Francs.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1939, Page 6
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