The floods in the Vilna district are subsiding and the worst is now over, except in the town of Dzisna, which is still completely submerged.
The River Vilja has dropped 67 centimetres. The electric station in Vilna has been cleared of water and is again working normally. Except in Dzisna conditions have improved everywhere in the Vilna district.
In Dzisna, however, the situation is still alarming and a telegram which the Joint Distribution Committee’s office here received from the town this evening describes the plight of the inhabitants as desperate. The people have abandoned everything in their homes, glad to be able to escape with their lives, and in the higher districts as many as 40 people are living in one attic, the lower floors being flooded out everywhere. It is difficult to get bread in the town, and money is scarce. The Government is sending small sums of money by wire to enable the relief workers to provide some food for the victims.
The Joint Distribution Committee has allocated a sum of 3,000 dollars for the relief of the flood victims in the Vilna district, and Mr. Gitermann, the Polish Director of the Joint has gone to Vilna to take charge of the distribution.
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