BENGAL FAMINE
“NOTHING TO WHAT WILL HAPPEN” CORRESPONDENT’S VIEWS “I saw the tail-encl of the disastrous famine in Bengal in 1943-44, when 1,500,000 perished, but it is nothing compared with what will happen again if no relief is forthcoming,” says a correspondent in Burma in a letter to a local resident. “In Bengal I saw a woman drop her dead child in a rubbish tin; I saw dead lying at the railway station; I saw cats, rats and human beings struggling for scraps of food among the rubbish,” he continues. “I cannot see how we—l mean Britain, the Empire and the United States —can continue with bur high standard of living while hundreds of millions of people are clinging ,to life by a single thread,” concludes the letter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1946, Page 3
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128BENGAL FAMINE Greymouth Evening Star, 20 July 1946, Page 3
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