STORY DENIED.
INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE IN SPAIN. EVACUATION SUGGESTION FANTASTIC. TROOPS IN GOOD HEART. LONDON, September 5. A veteran of the Great War, a Scottish Communist, Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Aitken, who is on furlough from the command of the Fifteenth International Brigade in Spain, denies that the British battalion is returning home. He adds that, if the French frontier remains open, a second battalion will be dispatched. The suggestion of evacuation, he says, is fantastic. Five hundred Britons at present are in the fighting and the Americans numbered two thousand*. This number, it is expected, will shortly be trebled. Food, pay and morale were excellent.
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Wairarapa Age, 7 September 1937, Page 5
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