More than four hundred Jewish families are destitute today as a result of a fire in Kolno, near Lomzha.
Seventy-five percent of the Jewish population is left without shelter and is in a state of starvation as a result of the fire.
The authorities are investigating the fire which started in a barn and was spread to neighboring houses by a strong wind.
The narrow streets and the general congestion made the task of extinction most difficult even though several fire brigades aided by two detachments of the military were summoned.
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