INDIA FACES FAMINE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25299, 26 September 1947, Page 7

INDIA FACES FAMINE

Envoy’s Appeal To U.S.

“WORSE THAN IN 1943”

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) ®ec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. ~ India faces a famine worse than that of 1943, when 3,000,000 people starved to death,” said Mr B. R Sen, miSon n f°l cT Washington for the Dc_ He appealed to the United States ™^ rI S^ nt £°K to r S duce its grain exports. (The United States Department Ox Agriculture has announced that because of the partial failure of the American corn crop, overseas grain shipments in November will be 33 per cent, less than those in October.) S, en said that India’s famine would be worst in Calcutta, Bombay, Cochin and Travancore, where the harvests had failed, and in the Punjab S-ops e rJttifg? US Warfare has left the riitt.^ SSag i y ' f £ oln Delhi says that agriin W £* • AWloys nine out of every 10 Punjabis,, is at a standstill. Millions of acres of the Punjab’s richest land have not been torched in six weeks since Independence Day.”

dollar imports

FURTHER AUSTRALIAN CUTS LIKELY P- m ?.CANBERRA, Sept. 25. further cuts in Australian dollar imports within the next two months appear certain, according to an official statement at Canberra to-day. The cuts will be in addition to those already imposed, amounting to 35,000,000 dollars. «™ummg io

Reports reaching the Commonwealth from the British Government emphasise the increasing difficulties in the Empire’s dollar position. The Australian Government expects a report from its representative at the Empire dollar conference in London within the next fortnight, and this is likely to reflect a further deterioration