UNRRA FOOD
BLACK MARKETING IN SHANGHAI ?
NEW YORK, May 30. The United States Government has been asked to send a special observer to Shanghai to investigate widespread black marketing of UNRRA food. A Government source revealed that less than 10 per cent, of food shipments is reaching the most desperate famine areas inland. Chinese officers have failed to o et. adequate supplies to the Hupeh and Hunan provinces where moi e than 9,000,000 people are reported to he starving. A lack of internal transport is an important factor, but t most serious problem is the Chinese merchants buying up brW supplies and selling them at inflationary prices.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 June 1946, Page 5
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