NECESSITIES SCARCE
SITUATION IN JAPAN FOOD CRISIS IN CITIES TOKIO, Dec. 20. Japanese farmers must now sell their rice to the Government. This is the first time in Japan’s history that such a decree has been made. It is taken to indicate how serious is the food position in the cities. Prices are soaring, yet the shopkeepers will sell only the most meagre portions of rice, charcoal and other necessities. In many places butter, eggs, and milk are available only to invalids and infants. Gas is rationed.
Costly charcoal-gas generators were recently installed in city buses to replace petrol. Now the services are being curtailed, because of the high cost of charcoal.
Bath houses are, going out of business at a rate of three a day. The Japanese people ask little, but insist upon their daily rice and nightly bath.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20133, 30 December 1939, Page 10
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