ALGERIAN REFUGEES
SIR,—Many of your readers may wonder whether relief can get through to the Algerian refugees who have trekked home from Tunisia and Morocco during the last few weeks. In spite of the fighting and the recent political tensions, aid is reaching the refugees and those released from the regroupment camps, through a numoei of reliable agents and organisations.
Medical teams working among the children suf- fering in a widespread epidemic of dysentery are being supplied with drugs and equipment sent in safely and rapidly by air, and so are the few Algerian doctors and nurses who have had to treat those wounded by the OAS without anaesthetics, plasma or modern methods of keeping infection from wounds.
Long periods of malnutrition have weakened many of their patients and special foods are needed to help in their recovery.
In addition to medical supplies, relief has been given in the form of tents, clothing and food rations for the homeless and weak, and also tools and seeds to prepare the way for the future.
These people ask only for an opportunity to stand on their own feet again, and cultivate their neglected land. In this respect, they need_ all the help the inter- national community can give them during the dif- ficult months ahead.
STAN AWBERRY
President
DONALD WADE
for United Kingdom Committee for Algerian Refugees
49 Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, SW1
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