An acute shortage or bread, with even public kitchens unable to obtain supplies, and a sharp rise in cases of typhus were reported prevailing in Warsaw today by the Polish Government-in-exile.
The typhus increase, a Government statement said, was most marked among the Jewish population in Warsaw, In one day 281 new cases were registered in the former Polish capital and of this number all but 13 of the victims were Jews. On another day 305 cases, most of them Jews, were registered. The daily average in Warsaw, the statement said, ran between 200 and 300.
The Paris office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, meanwhile, is considering shipment of food into Poland through the Baltic states. Other relief measures are also being considered. One of the immediate measures concerns efforts to provide sanitation, the J.D.C. dispatching a large shipment of soap from Lithuania to Warsaw.
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