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POPULACE ON VERGE OF STARVATION United Press Association—By Eisctric Telecranh Copyright ST. JEAN DE LUZ, June 22. A quarter of a million people crowding to Santander are on the verge of starvation. According to British refugees, who arrived here, people are sleeping on the floors and doorways and subsist on spoonfuls of soup, and a small ration of beans, though milk is plentiful. The hospitals lack doctors and nurses. Scores of wounded soldiers with which the institutions are crowded are dying dally. Civilians line the quays clamouring for pasages on outgoing steamers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20762, 24 June 1937, Page 9
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94DISTRESSING PICTURE Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20762, 24 June 1937, Page 9
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