UNRRA SHIPMENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1946, Page 6

UNRRA SHIPMENTS

WIDESPREAD PILFERING ALLEGED PROTEST BY DIRECTOR LONDON, August 2. “The Director-General of UNRRA (Mr. F. H. la Guardia.) is _strongly protesting to Allied Headquai tei s against the widespread pilfering of UNRRA supplies in Trieste,” says the Associated Press correspondent in Belgrade. “Mr. la Guardia said that unless things were righted he would take up the matter with the British and American Governments. He described conditions in Trieste as ‘deplorable and intolerable,’ and the forces guarding the supplies as .‘a boy scout arrangement.’ Entire freight cars have disappeared. “ ‘There is no use fussing round this matter any longer, ’ he said, ‘cither the Military Government can protect these UNRRA shipments or it must openly, publicly, and officially confess that it cannot. Armed guards must be furnished. We do not want observers, we need guards.’ ” ATTACK SAID TO BE MOST UNJUST (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. The Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean theatre, Lien 1.General Sir William Morgan, declared that Mr La Guardia’s allegations regarding UNRRA supplies in Trieste were not founded on fact, says the Associated Press Rome correspondent. Lieut.-General Morgan said: “Mr La Guardia’s statement, made without his visiting Trieste, was a mosc unjust attack against the-local Brit-' ish and American officials. The facts have been reported to the British and , American Governments.”