PRISONERS EXCHANGED
Lives of 400 Saved (Received 30, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 29. The Foreign Office diseloses that Sir Henry Chilton, British Ambassador, and Mr. J. H. Leche, British Minister Plenipotentiary to Barcelona, eo-operat-ing with the Red Cross, saved the lives of 400 prisoners by arranging for the exchange of 200 on each side when General Franco 's captives were sen- i tenced to death which, if carried out, would have meant reprisals by the Republicans on a similar scale.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 7
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