SPANISH REFUGEES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1939, Page 6

SPANISH REFUGEES

PROBLEM FOR FRANCE CAMPS BEING PREPARED. TROOPS READY TO GUARD FRONTIER. A 3y Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 27. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Perpignan :orrespondent says the problem of Spanish refugees is becoming more icute daily. Nearly 300,000 as massed ■>outh of the Pyrenees. Trains are waitng at Cerbere and Boulou in order to evacuate as many as possible to France, where concentration camps have been prepared. Six thousand French troops at Perpignan .Montpelier and Carcasmne are ready to reinforce the fron,ier police. Others are moving up from nland garrisons.

MASS INFLUX CIVILIAN REFUGEES FLEEING TO FRANCE. RESTRICTIONS AGAINST TROOPS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 1-25 P-m.) LONDON, January 27. A Perpignan message says a mass influx of civilian refugees to France is beginning on Saturday but restrictions are being applied against troops. In /lew of General Franco’s opposition England and France have dropped the dea of a neutral zone but AngloFrench relief organisations have agreed .o co-operate in feeding and accommolating refugees. France is contemplatng camps near the Pyrenees, also in .Sforth Africa. M. Bonnet has asked Russia to accept as many as possible. The stream of refugees stretches for seven miles along the road to the fron.ier. Panic-stricken and half-starved women and children are struggling on inder pitiless bombings. At least two aundred were killed on the roadside oday. The frontier towns are crammed. Hundreds of refugees are living in the now without blankets and subsisting on water and bread.

REBEL ADVANCE FIFTEEN MILES PAST BARCELONA. BRITISH SHIP REPORTED SUNK. 3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) HENDAYE, January 27. The rebels have advanced fifteen miles beyond Barcelona and are occupying Sabadell and Badalona. The British steamer Foynes was sunk by a bomb in Valencia harbour. There were no casualties. “DOWN WITH FRANCO” DEMONSTRATION IN GIBRALTAR. POLICE CHARGE WITH BATONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) GIBRALTAR, January 27. The police made a baton charge on a thousand British demonstrators outside the offices of the Burgos Agency, who were shouting “Down with Franco and Mussolini.” The Agency is holding a reception to celebrate the fall of Barcelona. Voices inside replied: “Down with England." COUNT CIANO. NOT PROCEEDING TO BERLIN. (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) ROME, January 27. It is learned that Count Ciano is not going to Berlin.