Two young Spaniards, Jesus Casternel and Louis. Cicero, who have travelled thousands of miles Defence and Assistance to Airmen and Supplies ippled boys of the Heritage Craft had taken' their pets to the annual St, Francis Day service in the, school chapel, Their arrival. was like the entry. was there, and a donkey prominent place in the-aisle, -There were, dogs,.cats, guinea pigs, fishing bowls, bee-hives, chickens, school parrot was uriable to attend. "THe weather was' too cold.
'The vital of Ardingley, the Rev. J; Brack, talked to the children of the life of St' Francis, patron saint of animals.
An occasional quack, cackle, or a [shrill burst of song from a cage bird interrupted the service from time to time, And sat the end of the last hymn, Neddy the donkey crowned everything with a loud. bray. seeking a safe asylum, are now in Cardiff jail.
While fighting ju. the Spanish Republican Army they were captured and taken. to a concentration, camp at Miranda del Ebro, near Bilbao.
They escaped on a ship bound for Barry, Glamorgan, but were arrested on landing and interned.
Efforts were made to send them to Mexico; A ship was found which the immigration officer was informed, was proceeding to a Mexican port.
But the ship's orders were changed, en foute, and she was diverted to Florida.
The Spaniards were not allowed to land there. They were taken on in the ship to Newfoundland, and returned eventually to Scotland. At Rosyth they jumped ship, In trying to get in touch with a löeal Spanish refugees committee, they were arrested and again jailed.
They were transferred from one prison to another until they arrived Their plight has come to the notice of the South Wales Miners' Federation, whose president, Mr. Arthur Horner, has asked Sir Charles Edwards, the Labour Whip, to apply to the Home Office for a permit for their release.
"The Federation has undertaken to Peace Efforts Gratefully Appreciated Washington, Nov. 27. air power may e factor in the war, Most of the senior officers will qwrt Royal. Australian e te betta be acfrom the Citizen Air Force, the RAAF. reserve, and the Civil Air Reserve.
'Over 3,000. men have. applied to join the Civil Air Reserve under the new scheme for training pilots, over 10 per cent. of them already having licences and others considerable flying ex-isa tion of. the these men' that they shall Peace. efforts of Pope Pius and President Roosevelt' received high praise yesterday in a Thanksgiving Day statement issued by the American'Hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
The statement, urged 21,000,000 American Catholics not to become "victims of hate-mongers." It lamented that the "most appalling thing of modern, warfare. ig that the tragic offerings are not combatants but omen, children, the weak, the in-ahd, the: d old. ace with a purpose ið the stated objective of the combatants: but. no peace will endure unless justice is tempered. Peace achieved through outright s nothing more than profound our people to im join the efforts of their common Father.""—United Press. ible extensions munition factories, its are now be-unite engineering works. Fi will be at work by December, and ability will be completed the
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