REFUGEES IN INDIA
MANY NATIONALITIES INCLUDED (Rec. 11.0 a.m.) London, Dec. 22. Arrangements ar e being made to give 11,000 children refuge in India for the duration of the war, says the “Daily Telegraph’s” Delhi correspondent Already about 1000 have made the trek across Iran and Baluchistan after drifting to South Russia from Poland. Many are still suffering from the effects of famine and disease.
Poles predominate among India’s refugees, who also include many Greeks and others from Iran, Somaliland, Djibuti and Aden, and include Austrians, French, Rumanians, Australians and Canadians. There are also many Anglo-Chinese, Anglo-Burmese and An-glo-Malayan. Most unexpected are about 600 Maltese from a centuries-old community in Turkey. Recent Turkish law required them to take Turkish rationality or quit. As they were unable to return to Malta they temporarily settled in India.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 23 December 1942, Page 2
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