FAMINE IN HUNGARY
DEATHS EXCEED BIRTHS “TERRIFYING” STATISTICS. Reed. 6 p.m. Budapest, Dec. 22. “Wholesale famine seems unavoidable in Hungary this winter, said the Food Minister, Baranyos, who stated the chief medical officer presented terrifying statistics, with mortality exceeding births by more than 50 per cent. Budapest, by the middle of January, would be devoid of flour. At present it had seven days’ stocks of flour, one-third of which is maize and has no fats, meat or sugar.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 303, 24 December 1945, Page 5
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