This excellent airview gives a graphic picture of why more than 200,000 refugees out of a total population of 360,000 evacuated their homes. Faced with a shortage of food and water; without lights or power, the gravest dangers lie in diseases of chicken pox, measles, mumps and scarlet fever which seem to threaten the refugees

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. January 1937]

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