EXODUS FROM SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1939, Page 5

EXODUS FROM SPAIN

REFUGEES IN MISERABLE PLIGHT WOMEN AND CHILDREN DYING ON ROADSIDE. FRENCH AUTHORITIES DOING THEIR BEST. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. I Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, January 30. The "Daily Telegraph’s” Perpignan correspondent says fresh snowfalls have intensified the misery of Spaniards awaiting entry to France. Women and Ziildren are dying on the roadside, though 13,000 refugees have already been accommodated across the border. The situation eclipses the exodus from Belgium to France in 1914. The French authorities are doing their utmost to meet the situation, establishing concentration camps and safety corridor train services to the interior. Many refugees, particularly women, are heavily bejewelled and beringed, indicating pillage of fellow refugees. .

LOYALIST EFFORTS GRADUAL RESTORATION OF ORDER. SOLDIERS RETURN FROM FRANCE (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON. January 30. The British United Press correspondent at Perpignan says order is being slowly restored in Loyalist Catalonia. Two-way traffic has been established between Gerona and France, whence 5,800 Loyalist soldiers soldiers have been repatriated.

ITALIAN LOSSES

ROME OFFICIAL REPORT.

(Received This Day. 9.40 a.m.) ROME, January 30,

It is officially announced that there were 2555 Italian casualties in the Catalonian campaign, of whom 355 were killed.