SERIOUS RICE SHORTAGE
SOUTH EAST ASIA AREA SUPPLY POSITION NEAR CATASTROPHE SINGAPORE, November 10. South-East Asia food supply liaison officers have issued a communique stating that the rice deficit in the territories remains “perilously near catastrophe,” although supplies are better than was expected. . « In Malaya, where there is an urgent need to increase the extremely meagre rice ration, officials are only able to say that the present rations could be maintained until the end of the year. The situation in the Netherlands Eas. Indies is serious, and there are grave shortages in Sarawak and Borneo, Countries participating in the rice pool would receive 74 per cent, of their allotted supplies to the end of 1940.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25030, 12 November 1946, Page 7
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