Aftermath

Four nations landed sailors and marines in Santo Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curac,oa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River.

Officials released figures on the hurricane's toll: dead 2,000; injured 6,000; gangrene cases 1,000; property damage $25,000,000.

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