WHEAT OR COFFINS
STARVATION IN GREECE, “Thousands of Greeks have died from starvation, and on one pathetic occasion one. of the Greek islands telegraphed to Athens this- blunt message: ‘Send wheat or coffins.’ When I say the Greeks are starving I am not exaggerating. Of the 3,000 calories a day required to keep a normal person in health, the Greeks, in many areas, are not receiving more than 400 to 500 calories per head of population. The Allies now send to Greece by neutral steamers, 15,000 tons of wheat a month, and this the. Germans have promised not to touch.”—Geoffrey Bourne, talking in a 8.8. C. overseas series.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1943, Page 4
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108WHEAT OR COFFINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1943, Page 4
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