2000 DEATHS DAILY
Germany Admits Mortality
Rate In Greece
DISCLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY
Rec. 11 a.m. . LONDON, Feb. 23. Admitting that at least 2000 people " are dying daily in Athens and - Piraeus, a Berlin spokesman said " that Germany was willing to agree *■ to the transport of a consignment I of Australian wheat to Greece from ■ Alexandria, for which the Greeks ' had paid. Germany thus was not I 1 responsible for the present situation ; ! in Greece. He added that the Greeks r \ had not been dying of starvation but 3 of illness, resulting from under- "! nourishment. Epidemics had spread " : like v.-ildiirc. The complete lack of 3 coal had caused many deaths among "the undernourished people in unf: heated houses. . The Berlin correspondent ot me •Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nybe- > ter savs that four Dutchmen were • executed at Delft on charges'of help- \ ing the enemy. The Burgomaster • of Mayschoss, in the Rhine Pro- ' vince, "was executed for repeated ; violation of the rationing regulations.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 5
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1582000 DEATHS DAILY Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 5
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