FRENCH AND BRITISH REFUGEES
AN OVERCROWDED BOATLOAD [U.P.A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] (Received 22nd June. 1’.20 a.m.) LONDON. 21st June. Fifteen hundred British and French refugees, including Eve Curie and Madame Tabouis, cramming the decks of a ship intended to accommodate 160. arrived at a West of England port. British families from Paris, students from Geneva, priests, nuns, French. Czech, Polish, German Jews. B.E.F. officers. woman ambulance drivers and British airways officials made up a crowd which struggled aboard the ship in France in half-dead weariness.
A German bomber appeared during the embarkation but French fighters drove off the raider after it attempted to sweep the decks with machine-guns.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 22 June 1940, Page 8
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