JUST IN TIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 73, 28 March 1939, Page 7

JUST IN TIME.

ISLANDERS RELIEVED. DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD. « PLAGUE DANGER. AVERTED*. (Br Ale MalLi DUBLIN, March 8. Tory Island, famine-stricken home of 300 people off the coast of Donegal, wU relieved by the Eire fishery patrol cruiser Muirchu, which battled it* way .through the wild seas that had cut off I the island for five weeks. 1 After steaming through the nijiht the i Muirchu manoeuvred her way int» . iGreeport Bay and anchored. A wildly cheering population greeted her and food was distributed immediately. For weeks, while 20ft Atlantic rollers lashed the rugged coast the islander* 'had lived mainly on winkles and rating 'potatoes A quarter of them, their resistant sapped, fell victims to an aci«ic form of influenza. j «»edi.al supplies were distributed for the sufferers, and the most serious case* Ihave Wen taken to the mainland by jthe Muirchu. | One of them, Kathleen Doogan, a | little girl, is critically iIL I Father McFadden, the island's priest, telegraphed last night: -Enough food and fuel now for long tune. People 'ovcrjoved and very grateful. Continuance of our plight might have meant I a plague."