SAVED BY DOCKERS
TWO SPANISH REPUBLICANS SWAM ASHORE FROM SHIP LONDON, July 20. (Received July 21, at 0.30 a.m.) Welsh dockers intervened and saved the lives of two Spanish Republican officers who were condemned to death in Spain in June. They broke gaol and stowed away on a British ship which was going to Cardiff, but were lodged in gaol there pending deportation. Later the officers leaped out of the ship which was taking them to Spain and swam ashore in the Bristol Channel, where dockers aided and sent them to a welfare home. They are arranging to send them to Mexico.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 9
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