The Archive · 1938

Requests to Colonies

Communications were being addressed to a number of Colonial dependencies, other than Tanganyitca, British Guiana, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland,.asking whether areas were available for refugees, declared Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, He added that one of the officers addressed in this connection was the High Commissioner of the Western Pacifte, Sir Arthur Frederick Richards.

Mr. Chamberlain made a statement im the House of Commons, on November 21, in which he said that the Governors of Tanganyika and British Guiana had been requested, and had consented, to ce-operate in the matter of refugees.

The Governors of Northern Rhode-sla and Nyasaland had indicated that some small scale settlement for refugees was possible—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account