Telegram 182 from Mitchell to FCO - 9th December 1971 - Problems with Evacuation

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Title

Telegram 182 from Mitchell to FCO - 9th December 1971 - Problems with Evacuation
FCO 63/882 item 135 pages 133/134

Subject

Evacuation

Description

Summary of problems with evacuation - hold ups, possible sabotage from opposition; challenges of feeding evacuees and preventing possible typhoid outbreak; tempers and nerves are being frayed; focus on evacuation people are forgetting about the volcano,

Creator

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK)

Publisher

The National Archives (UK)

Date

9th 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_#471
FCO 63/ 882

Coverage

The 1971 volcanic eruption of La Soufrière St Vincent.

Telegram Item Type Metadata

Date Sent

9th December 1971

To

FCO

From

DG Mitchell - Deputy British Government Representative

Files

Collection

Citation

FCO (Foreign Commonwealth Office - UK), “Telegram 182 from Mitchell to FCO - 9th December 1971 - Problems with Evacuation,” Curating Crises, accessed May 14, 2026, https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/items/show/471.

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