CHILDREN SENT TO SOUTH WALES

Southland Times, Issue 24161, 25 June 1940, Page 6

CHILDREN SENT TO SOUTH WALES

GRATITUDE FOE OFFERS BY DOMINIONS LONDON, June 23. Thirty-five hundred London and Croydon children at Eastbourne and surrounding villages have been evacuated to South Wales. Fourteen hundred London school children have been evacuated from Kent to South Wales.

Mr Geoffrey Shakspeare, Undersecretary for the Dominions, in a broadcast on the scheme for sending overseas British children between the ages of five and 16, whose parents feel that they would thus be safer from war risks, referred in terms of gratitude to the offers by the Dominions and United States. He emphasized that there was no question of mass migration. The plan is limited to sending overseas as many children as possible, having regard to the inevitable limitations of shipping, to the number of offers for reception, and, above all, to the need for an orderly, well-thought-out scheme ensuring the safety and welfare of the children. ■Mr Shakespeare said that it was surely an inspiring thought that many lovers of freedom, far removed from the war zone, were ready to look to the safety of Britain’s children while she fought the battle of liberty.