ROME ONE OF WORLD’S UNFORTUNATE CITIES
Recd. 6 p.m. London, March 8. Cut off from the rest of the world and approaching a state of famine, Rome is one of the world’s most unfortunate cities, says the Rome correspondent of the Swiss newspaper Basler Nachrichten. The ever present danger of air attacks is worsening the situation and hospital crowded with wounded from the battlefields a few miles away deepen the general atmosphere iand anxiety and hardship. Air raids have broken water and gas mains, and the food shortage is reaching a climax. Bus services have practically been suspended. Military cookhouses erected in public squares are dispensing soup to bombed-out people and destitutes. The Vatican is also distributing food. The heavy raid last week worsened the plight of the population, which has almost doubled with the influx of refugees, in addition to thousands now homeless as a result of the air raids.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 60, 11 March 1944, Page 5
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