Telegram 175 from Mitchell to FCO - 7th December 1971 - Clarification of evacuation numbers

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Title

Telegram 175 from Mitchell to FCO - 7th December 1971 - Clarification of evacuation numbers
FCO 63/882 item 107 page 181

Subject

Evacuation

Description

Reply to Tel100 from FCO: 2500 is population remaining following 'massive' self-evacuations; now no need of sea evacuation unless persons subsequently drift north to homes

Creator

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)

Publisher

The National Archives (UK)

Date

7th December 1971

Contributor

DG Mitchell - Deputy British Government Representative

Rights

These files are made available by The National Archives via Discovery, the full entry for this item can be found here.

The full item FCO 63/882 was digitised using funds from the Curating Crises project.

These files are hosted in the Curating Crises database with permission from The National Archives under the copyright terms presented here.

Format

JPG

Language

English

Type

Telegram

Identifier

Curating_Crises_#446
FCO 63/ 882

Coverage

The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.

Telegram Item Type Metadata

Date Sent

7th December 1971

To

FCO

From

DG Mitchell - Deputy British Government Representative

Files

Collection

Citation

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Telegram 175 from Mitchell to FCO - 7th December 1971 - Clarification of evacuation numbers,” Curating Crises, accessed May 12, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/446.

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