PRICE RACKET IN BENGAL
Governor’s Denunciation (Received October 10, 8.10 p.m. ) CALCUTTA, October 9.
A price racket, bused on the scarcity of food, had been killing (he people as much as the scarcity itself, said the Acting-Governor of Bengal, Sir Thomas Rutherford, in a broadcast. During n visit to rural areas, he said, he had seen rice for sale in almost every market in the 2'l districts and grocers apparently had plenty of other food and grains for sale. The price demanded, however, meant that the poor had to sell their bits of land or household possessions to pay for it. “Cannot some form of social pressure be applied to stop this sin against humanity?” he asked. “When Bengal s winter rice comes in our troubles will be ended.”
Field-Marshal Milch, Chief of the German Air Staff, broadcasting over Berlin radio, claimed that the Luftwaffe in the past few years had dropped more than 35,000,000 bombs and shot down more than 6.1,000 enemy planes, mid also that since the outbreak of war it had sunk 6,000,000 tons of enemy shipping and damaged 12.000.000 tons.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 5
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184PRICE RACKET IN BENGAL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 5
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