EVACUATION LONG AGO
Evacuation is 2.400 years old. It was in September 480 B.C. that the women and children and old folk of Athens were evacuated to safety zones at Troezen, Aegina, and the island of Salamis. The Persians were approaching, and the Athenian council deemed it expedient to send away all noncombatants before hostilities broke out. Every citizen who embarked for an evacuation centre was given eight drachmae, a sum amounting to several weeks’ wages: and though there was no B B C. to broadcast instructions the evacuation was carried out with complete success
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 January 1940, Page 6
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