Pacific Stars and Stripes,
Dec. 28, 1953
PUSAN, Korea, Dec. 28- The
last 3,000 Pusan fire refugees, housed in the warehouse shelter of
the 7th Major Port, were moved into "tent cities" Christmas
Eve, Col. Irvin L. Harlow, Korean base Section civil affairs officer,
announced Saturday.
The warehouse, pressed into emergency service
the day after the Pusan fire, sheltered and fed up to 10,000 people.
A hospital train was moved to the pier to provide
medical aid for the sick and injured. Immediately after the
warehouse was opened more than 6,000 orphans whose homes had been
consumed by the flames flocked to the emergency shelter. While
the refugees stayed at the pier they were fed C and K rations at first
and later rice and Korean food supplied by the Korean Civil Assistance
Commission.
Dec. 11 the first group was moved from the pier
when tents were erected in a gutted area of the city. With the
emptying of the pier 12,285 refugees are living in tents where they
will remain until permanent housing now in the planning stage is completed.
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