THREE GURKHAS KILLED
AMBFSHED NEAR BATAVIA . Received Friday, 10.45 a.m. BATAVIA, July 18. Three Gurkhas were killed and 1 one 'wotinded when two lorries were tcmbushed east of Batavia. The ! British west of Medan have lost jone killed and one wounded.
It is (litlicult cvcn for those who lived in Kngluml th rough the wni' years it is inijiossiblc toi* those who lived in fhc ' eou titri es outside tlie' Avar z.one— tc rcalise what. llolland went -th ro.ugh To-dav Gcrinany and'the WW'JJ ,is -exercised by the ' fact 'tluif TaJiotn have liitd to bc FeducctdTh chlorief a dav. As far baek as NoveYnber, 11)44 ihe butcli wcrc condcmncd by the Ger muns to bjn calories a day. By FebVu ary of last vcar that pitiful dole hac been rcduccd to 340 calories. In thc last weeks of April it was down to 23f (230 calories means very Tittle morc tlian a slicc and a lialf of bread a dav). Thc people of llolland lived on stew made of sugar hccts and soup of txilip bnlbs. Tragically often even the tuli]' ! lmlbs did not gct th rough. There were j 15, 000 who died in Western Holland oi starvation. When the armies brokc th rough' there wero .80,000 in the west J r.uffcring from hunger ocdema.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1946, Page 5
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