JAPAN’S FOOD POSITION

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24869, 8 May 1946, Page 7

JAPAN’S FOOD POSITION

SUPPLIES FROM MANCHURIA

RELEASE BY RUSSIA ADVOCATED

TOKYO, May 6. President Truman’s food investigator (Mr Herbert Hoover) said that the world food situation would be greatly helped if the Russians released to China and Korea part of the foodstuffs they had secured in Manchuria. He said that Japan must have food imports, otherwise all Japan will be on a ration little better, than the Buchenwald and Belsen camps, and the Japanese' will not be strong enough tc harvest the next crop. Moreover, food imports were required to prevent the American occupation troops being endangered by disorders and epidemics. The amount required for Japan would not necessarily prejudice supplies to China, India, the Philippines, and Korea, because that could be prevented by full co-operation in supply and distribution throughout the world between now and the next harvest.

Mr Hoover praissd General MacArthur’s food staff as one of the best he had seen. He added: “I take it we will rely on their facts.” A London message says that Belgians are to have more butter and less bread, states the Brussels correspondent of the Associated Press. The Ministry of Food has announced that the daily bread ration will be reduced by 50 grammes to 850 grammes. The proximity of Denmark and Luxembourg makes it possible to double the butter ration, which is at present 100 grammes monthly.