Word: clapton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of typhoid having broken out, 400 of the 3,800 refugee Basque children sheltering in Britain were packed off by the Salvation Army to quarantine in Clapton, a north London suburb. One morning last week 50 were found missing. Kind-hearted Clapton residents, having heard rumors that the children "were being beaten & kept prisoners," had crept up to the hall, lured them away with candy, cigarets, beer. Distracted Salvation Army officers had to scour the streets to recover the truants...