FOOD HUNT
COLOGNE DISTRESS ONE IN FIVE ON DOLE COLOGNE, Sept. 18. Three hundred famished unemployed during the week-end stripped several potato fields before the police, who were summoned, could reach the scene. Thirty of the men were later arrested. So much winter distress is expected in the Rhineland that specially-heated recreation rooms are being provided where families may spend their evenings, instead of in their own cold, denuded homes. Relief committees arc being formed and private charitable institutions are co-operating with tile city authorities in measures for helping those who are down and out. Of Cologne’s population 22 per cent, are already being publicly assisted. There will 'he officially-organised collections. both of money and kind, at stated intervals throughout the winter, and well-to-do citizens ' will he asked to “adopt” a needy family, at least to the extent of providing the children with food and clothing.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17588, 2 October 1931, Page 5
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146FOOD HUNT Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17588, 2 October 1931, Page 5
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