FIRES AT RELIEF STATIONS.
(lilcc. Td. Copyright—United Press Assn-l •AuslpaUan and JX.Z Oblr Association./ (Received April 3, 11,150. a.m«). ATHENS, April Fire destroyed kitchens and distributing stations on Mnkronissi Island, where hospitals and quarantine stations are situation for .10,000 refugees from An a folio. Volunteer firemen saved the doctors and nurses. Greek troops are assisting in rebuilding the .premises. . A TifUf i^eiys^goslaves that fire (lest royod'iono’Vtf the/immense warliousos of the Near East relief organisation at Alexundropol,! where 1(5,000 Armenian children -are • housed —tho largest, orphanage in- the world. Several orphanage buildings- were endangered’, hut a bucket brigade of 2000 children was organised bv gn American nurse, and, kept back the fhiinqs, assisted by a, battalion uf Bolshevist soldiers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 5
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