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Show Shortages in Housing Are Reported in Africa NEW YORK. Shortages in housing hous-ing and clothing are the greatest problems of the civilian population in North Africa and will present increasingly in-creasingly grave health dangers when the cold, rainy weather starts, it was reported here by Kurt Peiser, member of the overseas staff of the joint distribution committee, who returned re-turned recently from a four-month tour of the area. A large percentage percent-age of the civilians face a winter of living in tents, camps, unheated barracks bar-racks and schoolhouses. all with limited lim-ited sanitary facilities, he said. At a press conference in the offices of-fices of the committee, Mr. Peiser predicted little improvement in the situation until after the war, particularly particu-larly in housing, because of a lack of materials for reconstruction of buildings build-ings destroyed by bombings. Describing in detail the effect of the war on Tunisia, he said it presented pre-sented a pattern that would be found in every reconquered country that had lived under German occupation. There, he said, the Germans had looted the native population, singling sin-gling out the Jews for special discriminations. |