FACING FAMINE
SHORTAGES IN HUNGARY (Roc. 10 p.m.) BUDAPEST, Dec. 22. A wholesale famine seems unavoidable in Hungary this winter, said the Food Minister, M. Baranyos, who stated that the chief medical officer had presented terrifying statistics, with mortality exceeding births by more than 50 per cent. Budapest, by the middle of January, would be devoid, of flour, and at present had seven days’ stocks of flour, one-third of which was maize. It had no fats, meat, or sugar.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26034, 24 December 1945, Page 7
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79FACING FAMINE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26034, 24 December 1945, Page 7
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