BENGAL FAMINE
PROMPT ACTION BY VICEROY.
PRAISED BY INDIAN PRESS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, November 1. Last week’s famine totals were 1320 admissions to hospital and 698 deaths in Calcutta, says Reuter’s Calcutta correspondent. The Indian Press praises? j the prompt actions of the Viceroy, Lor.«ff * Wavell, and the newspaper “Statesman” says his visit to Bengal may be “the turning point in this tragic affair.”
A previous message from Calcutta said that Lord Wavell, after a threeday tour of Bengal’s stricken areas, decided to call in the Indian Army to help the Government of Bengal to deal with the famine situation. The authorities are making the following definite moves: First, the Government of Bengal is arranging for the removal of the destitute persons who are thronging Calcutta to supervised rest camps where they can be fed, clothed and given medical attention and from which they can be sent home when they have sufficiently recovered. Secondly, General Auchinleck, Comman-der-in-Chief in India, is lending a ma-jor-general with considerable transport experience to the Government for the organisation of a system to transfer grain from Calcutta to the famine areas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1943, Page 2
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