FAMINE IN GREECE
STRUGGLE FOR FOOD MEN & DOGS IN ATHENS TURKISH REPORT (Received Nov. 22, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21. Famine in Athens is so bad that men looking like skeletons fight with dogs for scraps in the dustbins and gutters. This was reported to the Istanbul correspondent of the Daily Mial by members of the crew of the Turkish food ship Kortulus who found that conditions in Greece had deteriorated terribly since the last visit. They said it seemed that every other person was suffering from a contagious skin disease because of the complete lack of soap. The conditions are described as bad as at Barcelona in 1938. The Italians in north-west Greece are distributing food and treating the people comparatively well with the object of lessening the hatred against themselves because they hope to add the north-west province of Greece to Albania after the war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20621, 24 November 1941, Page 7
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