MISERY INTENSIFIED BY SNOWFALLS
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DYING ON ROADSIDE CONFLICT IN SPAIN ! [U.P.A.- By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! ! (Received 31st January, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON. 30th January. The Perpignan correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” says that fresh snowfalls intensified the misery of the Spaniards awaiting entry to France, women and children dying on the roadside. Though thirteen thousand has been already accommodated across the border the situation eclipses the exodus from Belgium to France In 1914. The French authorities are doing their utmost to meet the situation, establishing concentration camps and safety corridor train services to the interior. Many refugees, particularly women, are heavily bejewelled and beringed, indicatinf pillage of fellow refugees. The British United Press correspondent at Perpignan says that order is being slowly restored in loyalist Catalonia. Two-way traffic has been established between Gerona and France, from where 5800 loyalist soldiers were repatriated.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 5
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