Complex sentence: The readers of Boston Evening Transcript readily sponsored a group of children and they left England on RMS Scythia (Cunard Line) 19,730 tons, from Liverpool on 24th September 1940 with 48 children bound for Boston.
Split into simpler sentences: The readers of Boston Evening Transcript readily responded and agreed to sponsor a group of children. A group of 48 children left England on RMS Scythia (Cunard Line) 19,730 tons, from Liverpool on 24th September 1940 bound for Boston.