INDIA'S CRY FOR FOOD.
Received Saturday 1.8 a.m. NEW DELHI, Alay 3. J The Contbined Food Board has not j kept its proniises to Iiidia, declared Sir | Jwala Frai/adi Srivastava, Food Alemlier j of th.e Vicef'oy 's Cabinet. He said he j hadn't any idea where surpluses exist- i ed whereon he- could draw. The Food Sec-retary, -Sir Robert Hut- j chiixgs, emj.iiasisijig tlie imminence of famin.e,. said April l.oadi ngs of' grain for India to'- alled 138,000 tons of wheat and 17,00-0 io'is of flour against th.e average uccd i. ' 2,000,000 tons. He said they were ousideriug establishing a fact-| fnulii g board to tou-r the Indian O.cean i countr'es to lind out whic-li nati.ons were j best plaeed to send grain.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 May 1946, Page 5
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