FAMINE IN CHINA
MANY DEATHS FORECAST NEW YORK, July 28. “International food experts of the United States Department of Agriculture, reporting to the Famine Emergency Committee, predict that famine in the Far East, particularly in China, will cause-many deaths from starvation before the autumn rice harvests,” says the New York Herald-Tribune.
“The experts also forecast an uncomfortably low food supply for the remainder of the world in the 1946-47 crop year, particularly in Germany and Austria. „ “Serious famine is also feared in Bengal because of hoarding and black markets.
“The world sugar crop will be bigger than last year’s. The United States is expected to raise its production by one-fourth. “Fats and oils will still be far below requirements. The production of meat, dairy products, and eggs will probably be smaller because of feed shortages, although a record , crop of feed grains is expected in the United States.” ...
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1946, Page 6
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