British Dockers Save Republican Officers
(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 20. Welsh dockers intervened to save the lives of two Spanish Republican officers who were condemned to death in Spain'in June. The two men broke gaol and stowed away in a British ship going to Cardiff', but were sent to gaol there pending deportation. Later, the officers leaped out of the ship which was taking them back to Spain and swam ashore in the Bristol Channel, where the dockers aided them and sent them to a welfare home. They are arranging to send them to Mexico.
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Northern Advocate, 21 July 1939, Page 5
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