60,000 DEPORTEES

Grey River Argus, 30 January 1946, Page 5

60,000 DEPORTEES

CROWDED IN SMALL CAMP’. AWFUL CONDITIONS IN AUSTRIA. (Rec. 11.40). LONDON, January 29. The “Daily correspondent in Vienna reports; There have recently been concentrated into a Russian displaced persons’ camp sixty thousand deported persons of Italian, Czech, and Polish nationality. This camp was constructed to house only two thousand persons. The officers of the Red Cross are dismayed at the conditions prevailing. These deportees are the victims of mass evictions from the Centra.l European countries, including a recent mass movement of a large number of German settlers from Yugoslavia, to which the Allies have not yet agreed. The correspondent adds: Red Cross officials, with British and American authorities, are trying to persuade the Russians to prevent unauthorised movements of helpless families.