TORN FROM HOMES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1943, Page 3

TORN FROM HOMES

MORE THAN 30 MILLION PEOPLE IN EUROPE. VAST PROBLEM FACING ALLIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 22. More than 30,000,000 people have been transplanted or torn from their homes since the outbreak of the war, says Mr Eugene M. Kulischer in a book written for the International Labour Office. This huge total, Mr Kulischer adds, does not include all the people of Europe who are now living away from their pre-war homes, the millions in the enemy armed forces who are stationed abroad, war prisoners, or the millions of Italian and German refugees who during last year fled or were evacuated from heavilybombed cities. Jews uprooted from their homes may total more than 4,000,000. Foreign labour employed in Germany, according to the writer’s latest knowledge, includes 1,300,000 Poles, 800,000 French civilians, 1,100,000 French war prisoners, 1,500,000 Russian civilians, 500,000 Russian war prisoners, and 350,000 Italian civilians. Before their repatriation after the war, uprooted people will have to be fed, clothed, and medically treated. Stoppage of the German war machine will deprive millions' of war prisoners and imported workers,of employment, presenting a problem the solution of which is beyond the powers of any single country.