STARVING PEOPLE AT SANTANDER
— Presa Assrl.-
Food And Medital Aid Lacking SOLDIERS DIE BY SCORES
(By Telegraph-
-Copyriglit.)
(Received 23, 1.30 p.m.) HENDAYE, June 22. The surrender of the Basque militia at Bilbao is complete, three battalions lianding over their arms. All poliee and civil guards except for 400, who were sent to Santander, have joined the rebels. A quarter of a million people cr.owding Santander are on the verge of starvation aCcording to British refugees who arrived at St. Jean de Lux. People were sleeping on floors and doorways. They subsist on spoonfnls of soUp and a small ration of beans, thOUgh milk is plentiful. Hospitals lack doctors and nurses) and scores of wounded soldiers with which institutions ate crowded are dying daily. Civilians line the quays clamouring for passages on outgoing steamers.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 134, 23 June 1937, Page 5
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