CHILDREN TERROR-STRICKEN
REFUGEES IN ENGLAND NEWS OF CITY’S FALL Mass Hysteria Follows Wireless Broadcast Press Association —Copyright. Received June 21, 12.5 p.m. London,. June 20. Terrible scenes occurred at North Stoneham camp when the Basque children heard the news that Bilbao had fallen. Complete terror broke out when the refugees heard the news broadcast from a van. Five hundred children were apparently seized with mass hysteria. Some, it is stated, armed themselves with tableknives. Police, ambulance men and ether rounded up many of the children on the roads and in an adjacent woods but 150 were still missing at 3.40 a.m. Volunteers continued the search throughout the night.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 452, 21 June 1937, Page 5
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108CHILDREN TERROR-STRICKEN Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 452, 21 June 1937, Page 5
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