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.
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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Item Relations
| This Item | Relation | Item: Telegram 178 from Mitchell to FCO - 8th December 1971 - Evacuation begins |
| This Item | Relation | Item: Telegram 179 from Mitchell to FCO - 8th December 1971 - Clarifications about evacuation |
| This Item | Relation | Item: Telegram 181 from Mitchell to FCO - 8th December1971 - Evacuation update |
| Item: Telegram 194 from Mitchell to FCO - 10th December 1971 - Second day of evacuations | Relation | This Item |
| Item: Telegram 195 from Mitchell to FCO - 10th December 1971 - conditions in the reception centres | Relation | This Item |
| Item: Telegram to MOD from SNOWI - 10th December 1971 - Evacuation sitrep | Relation | This Item |
| Item: Letter from Mitchell to Barltrop - 10th December 1971 - conditions in reception centres | Relation | This Item |
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