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Show SEVENTY THOUSAND STARVING Entire Population of Curacoa Si-From Si-From Four Year Crop Failure. Chicago. Death by iir.v.:. through four years of crop fu: .: faces the 75,000 inhabitants of i'.:. coa island in the Dutch W-st It'..-unless It'..-unless help is sent them, aco:a :.i the Right Rev. M. G. Vuylsf ke. 0. t Catholic bishop of Curacoa. arrived here seeking aid for the !': ers. "The suffering in my dioce-e i; :V, as terrible as in the .ir-" countries of Europe," sail " ' Vuylsteke, "and all that is to alleviate the conditions ;-t:r :; bread, seeds, water and fe-d o: ; kinds. Fvr four years there hi no crops and the island is into a veritable desert." The bishop said that 50.0"'1 ceo:-: people. 15,000 Indians and ::: ' -3,000 Hollanders were in distress. |