TIBETAN FOOD SHORTAGE
SITUATION HELD TO BE CRITICAL (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, October 3. Tibet is suffering from a serious food shortage and many Tibetans are starving, says the New Delhi correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” quoting reports in Indian newspapers by Vaders returning during the last few days from the border areas. “The traders describe the situation as critical. Shortages and the excessively high prices of foodstuffs, especially barley* which is the country’s staple diet, are attributed in part to the widespread floods of recent months and to the methods of the Chinese Communist authorities who now rule there,” says the correspondent Chinese overlords have attempted to suppress the facts of the serious situation, and in spite of appeals from leading Tibetans, no aid from China has 1 yet been received. “The Chinese Communists are using forced labour on the roads and other projects, ’ he says.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27472, 5 October 1954, Page 14
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