WORK FOR HUMANITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 9

WORK FOR HUMANITY

... PORTUGAL MEETS EMERGENCY Lisbon is at this moment the Clapham Junction of the world, through { which travellers between the Eastern and ihe Western Hemispheres almost ; inevitably pass, comments "The Times I They may be coming from almost anyj where in deranged and dislocated Fur- ' ope. but the chances are that they ] take Lisbon on the way to -lie west Especial It is this the case ;;i regard Ito refugees Durim: the List three 1 months they have arrived by .sen and j land, by boat anil bicycle, by trait: | and on foot, from every vuti'.ry m- . faded or threatened by the Na.'i ■ ■■ ouri'r S nv- have aLo come from I Africa and the Far East Man.v are content to remain u here they are ; other- wish to push oi, but in Hu *■' - c;v>- lai-j; ~f mean- di-mm.t'e- th.. .1 [ ; lans, anti a large number hi.te b> ■ 1 t-ome a hnaneial burden < n the < • . 1 try ('allotnne has spread f; >m He; I hti like a plague Europe .mil m, | reached the vay cmfim-s of Portugal •Hut -lie Portuguese hnv> r<fu rd utLe.lv e.mfmie callousm - v-ch j ::r. m;‘,h h:c; ii.-.p ; p ( -:ied m Ut’hr. tian (inta’or State- ! Tin- PoitugiK-e Government and I people are coming ti;r'-Uj'h the >•!:.<!• with a shmmi’ t<e,.td Tit'- sat luial mudlme-.s ~f th,, s.kabii.mts, supported Lgv : dm:m ,• mr, 1 !i bl' .tight , r; y :Ld,- ••. : ■ ' ■ ’Df.i' (!»■ ’1! uI < ■ ’ !'.i j? f;i j t /hi* Ihzi’jJ* ■ ....... • 1 - -.L •' 'i: >* f ('!;■ . ■ . ;