GRAIN FOR BENGAL
Large Importations (Received October 11, 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 11. , Eighty-nine thousand tons of grains was delivered to Bengal in September from sources outside the province, says the Delhi correspondent of “The Times.” If the rate of deliveries is maintained the Central Government will be satisfied. The Governor of Bengal stated that if the province could import 250,000 tons in th,e next three months, it might turn the corner. There are fewer beggars in the streets of Calcutta than there were several weeks ago, but additional thousands of people are now too weak to drag themselves about publicly, reports Reuter’s Calcutta correspondent. Hospitals which have been taking in the sick and destitute are overcrowded and the death-rate throughout the city is now about three times the normal rate, 527 persons having died in city hospitals during the week ended October 7. Free kitchens in tlie province are feeding about 1,350,000 persons. Doctors say they have seen more suffering in the last month than in the last 20 years.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 14, 12 October 1943, Page 5
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171GRAIN FOR BENGAL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 14, 12 October 1943, Page 5
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