There are now 4 to 5 million persons in an area approximately 60 miles across. who have not had food for 10 days or more. At the advanced stage of starvation reported by medical observers. attrition can be figured at 10.000 per day at the present time. Those who left during the collapse of Biafra have reported that Nigeria could not possibly be prepared to feed their former enemies. Yesterday. newspaper reporters were allowed to go into the territory where the refugees are gathered. The first story appears in todays Evening Star. and confirms what the missionaries have predicted. The truck convoys planned by the Nigerian Government are inadequate to meet the need.
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