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Show THreatened Famine Held To Result From Looting By German Soldiers. NEW YORK. Only food supplies from the outside world can save 2,000,000 children in Greece from death by starvation this winter, Laird Archer, foreign director of the Near East Foundation, warns in a report on a survey conducted recently recent-ly with the help of Charles L. House, who remains in Greece as head of the American Farm School in Salonika. Sa-lonika. Mr. Archer and his wife returned to this country from Athens two weeks ago. His report coincides with another on the situation in Greece, contained in a cable received re-ceived here by Nicholas G.' Lely, Greek consul general.' The threatened threat-ened famine is the result of the voracious vo-racious looting said to have been carried out by the German army. More than half of Greece's ordi- ' nary milk production has been taken away by the killing of cattle and all of her imports are stopped, Mr. Archer said. What little milk was available had been taken by the ' Nazi invading forces and all the Red i Cross ships which were sent from j this country before the war with j milk for Greek children have been sunk, his survey showed. I Italians More Lenient. However, Mr. Archer said the 1 Italian occupation authorities, who I have replaced the Germans in most j parts of Greece, have on the whole refrained from the practice, systematically syste-matically carried out by the Nazis, of interfering with relief projects and confiscating supplies for military uses. In this situation, he said, he saw a hope that food sent from abroad now would actually be permitted per-mitted to reach the war sufferers for whom it was intended. Mr. Lely reported that conditions are improving since the Italian army, which is less cruel and brings along its own supplies, has moved in. The consul general was informed that friction was developing increasingly increas-ingly between the Italians and the Germans and that Athens is full of British soldiers who were not able to get away when the city was evacuated by the allies. They are being effectively hidden by Greek civilians and even the wounded are being cared for in Greek hospitals without the knowledge of the occupying occu-pying authorities.' Nazi Savagery. As an example of Nazi savagery Mr. Archer told how German soldiers sol-diers raided public ovens where civilians had sent their food to be cooked, having no fuel of their own. In Psychico, a suburb of Athens, the Germans let the water run from all hydrants to cut down the pressure during their entire occupation. When they departed, no water was left for the vegetable crops upon which the civilians were dependent for most of their food. In Athens, Mr. Archer declared, the Germans had even gone so far as to take the full output of the vegetable vege-table canning factories, leaving nothing for the Greeks for the winter. win-ter. The Nazi army not only lived off the country, but seized everything exportable. Sabotage continues, although it meets with severe punishment. About 600 persons are dying every day from starvation, the cable received re-ceived by Mr. Lely said. Meat prices have risen tenfold, sugar sixfold six-fold and potatoes twentyfold, when any is available. |