Special refugee companies of the new Army Pioneer Corps are being formed in one of the refugee internment camps because of the great number of refugees asking to join. A special recruiting office opened today at Bloomsbury House. Every effort is made to conceal the identity of refugee volunteers to prevent Nazi reprisals against their relatives living in Germany.
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