FAMINE IN IRELAND
FAILURE OF POTATO CROPS. GOVERNMENT SENDING RELIEF. Pre*s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 28. (Received January 29, at 9 a.m. ) The Governor-General of the Irish Free Slate (Mr Tin Healy) declares that the conditions in some parts of Ireland are worse than they were during the famine in 18TQ. The potato crop has been a> total failure in Connemara, and a partial failure in Galway and Connaught. The residents are bordering on starvation. There- is also a scarcity of peat, which could not be dried owing to the wet season, which increases the hardship. Hearth fires which have not- been extinguished for two centuries are not out, however.
The Free State Government is sending food to the stricken areas, and is selling 6,000 tons of coke at 6d a bag.—Sydney 1 Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18852, 29 January 1925, Page 5
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135FAMINE IN IRELAND Evening Star, Issue 18852, 29 January 1925, Page 5
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