fusions to wounded. In Almeria we heard for the first time that the town had fallen and were warned to go no farther as no one knew where the frontline now was but e\'er_\'one was sure that the town of Motril had also fallen. \Ve thought it important to proceed anid discover how the evacuation of the wounded was proceeding. \\«'e set out at six o’clock in the evening along the .\lalaga road and a few miles on we met the head of the piteous procession. Here were the strong with all their goods on donlieys, mules and horses. \V'e passed them, and the farther we went the more pitiful the sights became. Thousands of children, we counted five thousand under ten years of age, and at least one thousand of them barefoot and many of them clad only in a single garment. 'l‘he_\‘ were slung over their mother's shoulders or clung to her hands. Here a father staggeu-(l along with two children of one and t\vo years of age on his l)aek in addition to earrying pots and pans or some treasured possession. The ineess'tnt .‘3ll‘(‘ElH1 of people became so dense we eould l)arel_\' foree the ear through them. At eighty eight kilometers from .\lmt-ria they beseeeht-d us to go no farther, that the faseists were just behind. By this time we had passed so many (listi't-:<r=:-(l women and children that we thought it best to turn back and start transporting the worst eases to sat}-t_\'.

lt was difficult to ehoose whirh to take. (Mr ear \\':is l)esieg'e~:l l).\' a mob of frantic mothers and fathers who with tired outstreIeln~d arms held up to us their children, their eyes and faces swollen and congested by four days of sun and dust.

«<'I‘al<e this one.» «See this child.» «This one is wounded.» Children with bloodstained rags wrapped around their arms and legs, children without shoes, their feet swollen to t\\'i(‘e their size crying helplessly from pain, hunger and fatigue. Two hundred kilometers of misery. Imagine four days and four nights, hiding by day in the hills as

the fascist barbarians pursued them by plane, walking by night

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