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THOUSANDS DYING

FAMINE IN THE AEGEAN ISLES CONDITIONS STILL TERRIBLE ON MAINLAND. SAVAGE NAZI MEASURES OF REPRESSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 9. Thousands are dying of starvation in the Aegean Isles, according to reports reaching Alexandria and

Ankara, says the Alexandria correspondent of the British United Press.

Food supplies are about exhausted and scenes similar to those in Athens can now be seen in the Aegean Isles where refugees lie round waiting for death, with stomachs grotesquely distended by hunger. Carts every night trundle through the streets and those who have died during the day are tossed in and carried off for burial.

More than 250,000 persons in the files of Mitylene, Nikaria, Chios and Samos, some of the most beautiful islands in the world, are affected. One thousand tons of Canadian flour distributed by the Red Cross at Mitylene, is nearly exhausted. Supplies at Chios will last another two weeks. Samos and Nikaria have no supplies. None of the 15,000 tons of American wheat arriving at Athens monthly have reached the Aegian Isles. Conditions on the mainland are slightly better, but a traveller from Athens who lived there in the last few weeks told the correspondent that conditions are still terrible. There is still very little of anything, and the Greeks are so desperate that they no longer trouble to hide their feelings. They hate the Germans and show it openly in the streets.

The Istanbul correspondent of “The Times” says that the Germans and Italians have recently stiffened repressive measures in Greece, aiming to cow the population. Several persons were executed in Macedonia for alleged sabotage. The Germans shot the harbourmaster at Lemons. The Italians handcuffed and sent to Italy Generals Manetta and Othoneos and Admiral Kolialexis.

The blackout is being stringently enforced in Mitylene and Chios.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3

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300

THOUSANDS DYING Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3

THOUSANDS DYING Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3

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