EVACUATED CHILDREN
CITIES OF BRITAIN COMPLAINTS IN COMMONS (Reed. Sept. 16, 9 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 15. The president of the Board of Education, Earl de la Warr, broadcasting, appealed to mothers not to return their children to the cities. “The time may come when air raids are a grim reality,” he said. Stories of evacuated women and children who were compelled to sleep on straw-filled sacks and old gaol bedding, verminous children, mothers who spent their evacuation allowances on a mixture of cheap wine and methylated spirits, and despairing women were described in the House of Commons in a debate on the evacuation of British cities.
The Minister of Health, Mr. W. Elliot, promised that local authorities would help in dealing with the problem.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 5
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124EVACUATED CHILDREN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20044, 16 September 1939, Page 5
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