MASS STARVATION
SITUATION IN GREECE FOOD SUPPLIES ARRIVING (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. Berlin announced that food supplies from the Pope, Including milk from Switzerland and flour from Hungary, have arrived in Atheqs. / The Istanbul correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that the Turkish ship Dumlupinar has sailed for Athens with 2500 tons of food, including peas, lentils, beans, and salted fish, as Turkey's contribution to ameliorate the mass starvation in Greece. THOUSANDS OF DEATHS STOCKHOLM, Feb. 23. Admitting that at least 2000 are dying every day m Athens and Piraeus, the Berlin spokesman said Germany was willing to agree to the transport of a consignment of Australian meat to Greece from Alexandria for which the Greeks paid. Germany was thus not responsible for the present situation in Greece. He added that the Greeks were not dying from starvation, but from illness resulting from undernourishment. Epidemics spread like wildfire, and the complete lack of coal caused many deaths among undernourished people in unheated nouses.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24850, 25 February 1942, Page 6
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