Evening star., 1940-07-13
Washington Brings
1910 From Europe;
$50 Children
Voyage Is UneventfuI
Compared to Lost,
When Sub Stopped Her
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 13.-The United
States Liner Washington arrived
from Galway, ireland, today on her
final war refugee removal trip, with
1910 passengers, 273 of them aliens.
The voyage was uneventful in con-
trass to her last trip, when she was
stopped by German submarine.
Three hundred and eighty Of the
passengers were children under 10,
and the ship, as on her last two voy-
ages, resembled floating nursery.
One OF the children was the 9-year-
old son Of British Information Min
lister Alfred Duff Cooper. going to
stay with unnamed friends at East
hampton, Long Island.
Simpsons Son Arrives.
Another was the 10-month-old
son of Ernest Simpson, former hus-
band Of the Duchess of Windsor,
and his present wife, the former
Mrs. Mary Raffray of Baltimore.
The Simpsons are still in England.
Despite the addition of 600 pas
sengers beyond the Washington's
regular load, there were few COM
plants. One woman said she paid
$315 for a cot in cabin with five
others and several passengers said
stewards had made numerous anti.
British remarks.
Second Emergency Voyage.
1t was the Washington's second
emergency voyage under State De-
partment orders, and her fourth
rescue" trip since last April, when
She brought 900 refugees from the
scandinavian invasion. On July 26
she goes into the New York-San
Francisco service, along with the
Manhattan, now en- route homo
from Lisbon, Portugal, with 1913 pas
sengers.
On board the Washington were
John Kerr Davis, American envoy,
and his wife, who were in Warsaw
during the siege by the German
armies and who more recently have
been at Dublin.
ANY Americans left in Ireland
have only themselves to blame"
Mr.. Davis said. They had SUFFICIENT
warning to leave"
Mr.. Davis is on his way to Wash.
lngton for assignment to a State
Department post.
&. V. r. Thompson, New York
correspondent for the London Daily
Express, and his wife, Dixie Tighe,
member of the New York Post
staff, greeted Mrs. Arthur Chris.
tiansen and her four children, who
will stay with them "for the dura.
ton" at their Pound Ridge, West.
chester County, home. Mr.. Chris.
tiansen is the editor-i -in-chief of the
Express.
Child Committee Preserved.
Marshall Field. chairman of the
National Child Refugee Committee
announced last night that the or.
ganlzatlon would continue to func-
ton despite an announcement from
London that the scheduled removal
OF children from England to this
continent had been postponed"
Field said that "postponement is
not abandonment" and that the
committee would be kept intact
so that 1t may be available for snv
further change or emergency which
may arise He added that a num-
Der OF children would still arrive
through ordinary channels and that
all efforts would be made to make
TINS number as large as possible.
j. Roland Robinson. official rem.
resentative of the British Oversee,
Reception Committee, with which
the field organization has been co..
operating, expressed his disappoint.
ment over the London announce
ment, particularly as I understand
that at this moment all the technical
difficulties in the way of the admis.
sion of the children to this country
have been removed I trust the
postponement will be a very short
one"