VERY REAL DANGER
STARVATION PROSPECT
Rec. 10.20 a.m. NEW YORK, Sep. 30.
Japan, on the basis of her own governmental figures, will be in very real danger of starvation by the end of this year or early in 1946, says the "New York Times Tokio correspondent. Colonel Kramer, head of the Economic Control Board, stated that Japan had been largely cut off from essential food imports by the Allied air and submarine blockade since-1944. Her supplies of rice, cereals, and other foodstuffs were expected to be able to furnish a diet averaging only 1551 calories per person in 1946, compared with 2160 calories which the Japanese health authorities hold necessary, and 4000 calories as prescribed for the American troops. Colonel Kramer stressed that the American army of occupation cannot and will not independently undertake the task of feeding the Japanese, and added that the Japanese Government so far has suggested no plan for dealing with the critical situation. /
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 7
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