ST. HELENA’S PLIGHT
Shipping Services Being Closed (N.Z. Press Assn.— Copyright) LONDON, October 26. There is a possibility of "near starvation” on St. Helena, the tiny South Atlantic island where Napoleon was exiled, according to the “Daily Sketch." Shipping services to St. Helena were being closed, and it had the charactertistic problems of an underdeveloped territory little employment, low wages, and malnutrition, the newspaper said. “The island may be only a dot on the map, but the islanders have a powerful claim upon us,” it said. “Because the people of St. Helena are few—and do not agitate a lot—they must not be Ignored." The Bishop of St. Helena (the Rt. Rev. H. Beardmore) had come to England to remind the Government of his island's peril, said the “Daily Sketch.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29656, 28 October 1961, Page 15
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