The Archive · 1939

Evacuation of Germans Tu Latvia Starts

Numbers Of German Ships Arrive In Baltic Ports

Copenhagen, Oct. 9.

Germany has begun to transport the German Minority in Latvia and ether Baltic States to Germany, says the Stockholm correspondent of the "Politiken."

There are numbers of German ships in Baltic ports and one has already left Latvia for Germany with the first shipment of Germans.

It has been arranged that not only Germans, but Esthonian, Lithuanian and! Latyidn subjects born in Germany can be evacuated, if they so request, within 48 hours, The correspondent adds that ships have also arrived in Esthonian ports, but evacuation in Lithuania, has not yet started—Reuter,

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