London, June 2 'The Children's Overseas' Reception Board are among the busiest people in town these days. A trained staff of over one hundred have been working] day and night, In order to reply by velum of post' to every one of the 000 letters received daily from par ents anxious to avail themselves of the generous offer from the Domi fons and the U.S. A. and to send their children to safety overseas.
No red tape Is allowed to stand in the way of the efficient running of this organization. Nor are any. precautions overlooked which will safeguard the little evacuees who will Soon be setting out on perilous voy ages.
"The first of the children's ships to Canada, Australia and New Zealand will leave this country in secret. Not even parents will know exactly when, from which of our ports, the ship Sails, Good-byes must be said at a certain railway station to which parents will be asked to bring their: children, The children will then go to hostels, well away from the coast, where they will spend a night or two be~ fore embarkation. And from" here, after a final medical. examination, they will write their farewell letters home. last news he had of his wife was in telegram a week ago.
Mrs. Spears was in charge of the Hadfiekd-Spears mobile ambulance unit of 11. nurses and 14 women drivers. It is to be hoped thst they. too, are making for the coast. (Mrs. Spears and. the niiseing unit later arrived safely in London after being im retreat with the French Fourth Army for fifteen days.
Film star Madeleine Carroll decided carly this month to fly to Lisbon from the U.S. A., and she crossed the Spanish frontier Into France a few days ago. Since then nothing has been heard of her. She wished to offer her services to the Red Cross. Her mother is French and she has described her father as "a stubborn old Irishman."
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