Many persons have been killed in food rioting in Wilno, according to advices received here today by way of Riga. Street fighting was reported to have broken out in the refugee-packed city when famished civilians stormed former Polish Government buildings in search of food.
Wilno, ancient Lithuanian capital and cultural seat of Polish Jewry, was ceded to the Baltic republic by Soviet Russia, but is still under Soviet control pending formal occupation by Lithuanian troops. The occupation was originally scheduled for Oct. 22 but has been temporarily delayed.
An epidemic of typhus, with 12 deaths already recorded, was reported to have broken out in the city, whose population has been more than doubled by the influx of refugees both from Nazi and Soviet areas in Poland.
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