CHEMICAL WORKS BLOWN UP

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23494, 24 November 1941, Page 6

CHEMICAL WORKS BLOWN UP

SABOTAGE IN HUNGARY REPORT OF FAMINE IN ATHENS LONDON, November 21. Six of Hungary’s biggest chemical works were blown up or damaged by sabotage in the last week, reports the Istanbul correspondent of the British United Press. The Hungarians attribute -the incidents to negligence,—but information has reached _ diplomatic quarters that it was sabotage as a protest against the continuance of Hungary’s pro-Axis policy. The factories included the largest rubber works in Hungary, which are engaged excltsively on army contracts. . The famine in Athens is so bad that men, looking like skeletons, fight with dogs for scraps in dustbins and gutters. This was reported to the Istanbul correspondent of the "Daily Mail” by members of the crew of the Turkish food ship Kortulus, who found that conditions in Greece had deteriorated terribly since their last visit. They said that it seemed that every other person was suffering from a contagious skin disease because of a complete lack of soap. Conditions are described as being as bad as those in Barcelona in 1938. The Italians in north-west Greece are distributing food, and treating the people comparatively well, with the object of lessening hatred against themselves, because they hope to add the north-west province of Greece to Albania after the war.