DEATH ROLL OF 107.
Toll of Lives in Recent
• I Landslide. WEST INDIAN ISLE SUFFERS. British Official Wireless. (Received 11 a.m.) RUGBY, December 2. The Governor of Windward Islands sent a telegram to the Colonial Office with further particulars supplied, by the Administrator of St. Lucia of the casualties in the recent landslide in that island. The latest figures are a total of 107 known or assumed to be dead, and cases of a further 12 reported missing are being investigated. The Governor expresses the very deep appreciation of the colony for grants totalling £16,000, voted by the British Government towards the relief of sufferers and for anti-malaria measures. The sum of over £200 has been raised privately in Grenada and is supplemented by gifts of stores and clothing.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 9
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