PLEA FOR CHILDREN
BRITISH SYMPATHY PLANS FOR TRANSPORT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, April 30. The Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, replying to the proposal made by the humanitarian organisation that a number of Basque children should be brought to Britain, said that he would grant the required facilities providing the number brought was in accordance with the voluntarily-subscribed funds at the disposal of the committee.
A lady organiser of the committee left London by air for Saint Jean de Luz yesterday to assist in the preparations there for the transportation, if the children can be brought there.
Hie battleship Resolution is to proceed to northern Spanish waters, where she will relieve the cruiser Shropshire. When the Resolution arrives there will be, for the first time, two British battleships, the Resolution and the Royal Oak, in the northern Spanish area. Miss Megan Lloyd George has circularised thousands of members of women’s Liberal organisations soliciting aiil to evacuate the Bilbao refugee children, many of whom already are homeless orphans.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19313, 1 May 1937, Page 5
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