FLOODS IN KENYA
Supplies On Ships
(N.Z.P. A. -Reuter— Copyright) LONDON, November 17. The British aircraft carrier Victorious has been diverted to Mombasa after a further request from the Kenya Government for flood relief help, the Admiralty said yesterday. Victorious was on her way home from Singapore to Portsmouth for Christmas. The tank-landing ship Striker left Mombasa with three assault landing craft which will be used to take 700 bags of maize meal, and tea, coffee and sugar supplies to villages 40 miles up the Tana river, the Admiralty added.
In Nairobi, the Royal Air Force commander in East Africa (Air Commodore J. C. McDonald) announced that the Royal Air Force would begin at once dropping 90 tons of food a day in the flood-stricken area of Mackekos, 30 miles from Nairobi The rain eased off in the Nairobi area last night, but more fell elsewhere in Kenya, and road conditions are still serious because of swollen rivers.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29674, 18 November 1961, Page 11
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