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WORLD FOOD PROBLEM Dismissal Of
STILL
SERIOUS
Washington, November 4.
The Food and Agricultural Organization in a survey of world food conditions and prospacts said to- day the nations of the world are not doing and planning enough to cope with the world's long torm food noods.
Delegates attending the forth- coming F.A.O. conferenko of $7 nations in Washington will be presented with reports showing that world efforts at reconstruc- tion in the 1947-48 crop year have been the most effective since the war but F.A.O. officials said to- day that the general world ple- ture leaves little room for com- placency.
The survey shows that militons of people are still hungry, and that the world population 10-
tion.
Zealand, can 'atli) expand pro. duction under favourable cir. cumelanges but there is vi dence of caution, until, axpart markets for surplus products ere mare certains
To reach a satisfactory level in some of the worst fed countries food production would have to expand by 100 per cent,
be used.
verious
BOAC Workers,
London, November 4. Between 450 and 500 focal. ly hired employees' of the British Overens Airways Corporation in. the Middle Esat are to be dismissed as part of the nationailued alr- line's drastle economy drive. Making the announcement, Bir Miles Thomas, Deputy Chairman of the BOAC, sald that "izeable economies In
station costa rapidly being made effective." -Router.
are
GENERAL SLIM AT
THE PALACE
Two methods must principally
One in the better dig crenses more rapidly than produc-tribution of supplies among the Income groups. The whole country and to find means other is to raise the output of the for making sure that importing countries can export goods to pay of G.O.C., for the food needed.-Reuter.
Low Income countries continue to lack money for investment while technically advanced coin- fries show growing contemn as to whether markets can be found for their surplus products,
The Far East
The outstanding fart is that the world is stI producing less food and fibres and only slightly more forest products than before the
war.
Most of the Far arid Noar East
countries must organise
received in
French Coal Strike Just About Finished,
Paris, November 4.
The month-old French coal strike is "just about finished" and the pits will bo in full production by the beginning of next week, M. Robert Lascosto, the Ministry of Industry, declared în a broadcast today,
This prospect "has raised to the highest pitch the race for destruction and the wish for reprisals of the most fanatical and haughty of the strike leaders," he declared.
Ships Hold Up
Mr. Nehru Confident Of Peace
Cairo, November „4.. The Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, to- day expressed his confidence that there would be no war.
In five pits of the Pas de yesterday, the spokesman sald, Calais Northern coalfields dell-45,500 tons were brought to the berate damage had been done (surface.
He had arrived at. Cairo carlier to winding gear. and each London, November 4.
today on his way home from the General Sir William Slim was winding installation cost 15
Commonwealth Prime Ministers' received in audience by the King inillion francs. In other pits,
At Marseilles, France's largest Conference in London and the at Buckingham Palace today on M. Lacoste sald, trucks
50 ships filled Port, over
were still United Nations General Assembly his appointment as Chief of the with rubble had been thrown striking seamen, nearly all mem
strikke-bound today. About 3,000 in Paris. Imperial General Staff.
down the pit shafts audience Lieutenant-General N.W.
The King Mizo
bers of the CGT Union, were de-
Although the world is, iwit-
Irwin on relinquishing the post thrown
manding salary increases from nessing a "Bricks and stones have
most severe political been their employers.
crisis, he said, there nt the
ard strong West Africa Com-workers who had made
The seamen are asking for the peace factory everywhere. mand-Reuter.
their desire to work. Engineers' new CGT minimum, not approved The two big blocs are not pre- houses have been attacked with by the Government, of 15,500 pared for war and therein lies showers of bolts and
the peoples' salvation. france a month. Negotiations were revolver shots. Fire-raising
ship. devices have continuing between been thrown at houses. Motor-owner and unton delegations, a ears belonging to engineers and seamen's spokesman said." non-Communist trade union len-
Shipowners were meeting ders have been burned.
privately tonight to consider the situation. The spokesman said: "I have
Demand For
For More Aid To China
Now York, Novembor 4.
large inorosas in production Calling for renewed aid for China, Hearst's Journal
with the emphasis in grlaul.)
acre. Financial assistance and
ture on increasing output per
trained personnel are essential.
The main problem in Africa,
"The
American today said in an editorial. capture of Mukdon by the Chinese Rads, is ominous military nows."
and Latin America to organise It warned that unless and expand food and other agri-Nationalists won the cultural production.
There Tr
windows
of plain
"Shots were red at a motor
the
almost certainly not end this
He gave a warning that if any further "aggressive action” was taken in Indonesia by * colonialist power It might have "grave repercussions In India and the world."
coach carrying miners. A rall 12 will the impression the strike
Pandit Nehru said there must metres long was unbolted on a week."
be "complete elimination of col=" line over which a workers' train The non-Communist Force onial imperialism there.". was due to pass and the train was Ouvriere Federation criticised the He is due to arrive in Delhi on deralled."
Government's latest price fixing SaturdayReuter, moves as "ridiculous and insuf- ficient."
Force Ouvriere Bureau decided to continue to de- mand a revision of the wage zoning scheme, free discussion of collective agreements and a bold policy for lowering prices. Reuter.
Roturn To Work
M. Lacoste sold that those who the of Chinese and Russtan Marxists bad attacked the homes of their war in rather than under those of Ameri-working
comrades would be punished by Justice with ceptional severity."
also a shortage of technicians and Manchuria, which it called "the can democracy"
nced for large-scale invest-most strategic area in the Far East", they would lose the war
n ment.
to in the rest of China "and make so inevitable the bolshevisation of ex-ull Asia.”“
The problem in Europe is restore International trade that Europe can produce and chunge industrial and other pro-
food stand standards.
Star wrote The
cision".
that Mukden's foll
In the same vein, the liberat, "Nation" referred to the loss of Mukden as "the final blow in an unprecedented series of ro versos for Nanking".
ducts for foodstuffs and raw mo- Max Letner of the New York terials produced overseas.
It said: "Most Americans find alternative is to concentrate on meant the "end of Chlung's power hard to understand the grow. programmes of agricultural selfs in sight and the civil war inng weakness of China's economic sulliciency, with possibly reduced China has passed the hour of de military position
when
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London, November 4. Informal discussions are pected to take place between Dr. Juan Bromuglin, the Argentine Foreign Minister, who is expect- ed in London tomorrow, and Bri- tish Cabinet Ministers.
According to an authoritative source, trade' questions. Argen- tina's claim lo British Crown colonies in the Falkland Islands and their Antarctic Dependencies and the recent anti-British cam-" palga in Buenos Aires are likely to be discussed.
A Foreign Ofice spokesman said today that no formal discus- slona would take place during Dr. Bramuglla's visit.—Reuler.
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Reporting that boal minere who have been on strike were returning to work in Increasing numbers,
Franch National
Coal Board spokesman this evening gave Router the follow-
The
LEGATIONS NOW EMBASSIES
Wellington, November 4. ing attendance porcentages for Zealand will raise their Legations The United States and Now this morning's "white.
to the runk of Embassies, the acting Premier, Mr. Walter Nash, announced today.
Northern region: Valencienness 60.7; Doual 48; Oignies 54; Lend 26. Bruay, 30,
Other regions: Lorraine 100; Loire 74; Cevennes 32; Blanzy 83. Aquitaine 44, Provence 30.
Coal extraction had begun slowly, many of the plis being damaged, or, flooded. and
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Ferlin Wants Western Mark
Berlin, November 4. The City Assembly, meeting in the British Sector tonight, un- animously adopted a resolution requesting the three' Western Military Governments to declare
Sectors of the city. the new Western mark the sole legal currency in Western
thq Both
Eastern and Western marks circulate in the Western
The first New Zealand Ambas-half of the city at present, but sador in Washington will be Sir at the Western exchange "booths. Carl Berendsen, Minister, there obtained for one Western mark.
four Eastern marks can be July, 1944.
Tonight's meeting, boycotted as Mr. Robert M, Scotton, Minisusual by the Communial-deminat- ter in New Zealand since April, ed Socialist Unity Party, WRE 1949, will be the United States' held in an unheated room at the new Ambassador.----Reuter,
students' hall.-Router
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