LITTLE RELIEF
FOR DESTITUTE INDIANS MORE CHARGES OF NEGLECT. PROPOSAL TO SHIP GRAIN FROM AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 19. Destitute natives continue to stream into Calcutta. The newspaper the “Calcutta Statesman” estimates that there are 130,000 persons living on the pavements of the city, compared with 100,000 a year ago. The British United Press correspondent. in Now Delhi says that the Government of India is reported to be considering a suggestion by the Federation of the Indian Chamber of Commerce that America should be asked to send military transports with grain from Australia.
Half of the 16.000 or 17,000 persons in the south-west area of Calcutta are on the verge of collapse, according to Mrs Rajan Nehru, secretary of the AllIndia Women’s Conference, who visited the area. She added that the roadsides were littered with women and children gasping even for water. There was no sign of any great hurry about tackling the problem rapidly or effectively.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1943, Page 3
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