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SHANGHAI NEARING NEW FOOD CRISIS
Shanghai, July 17.
Rico prices ròse more than 30 per cent in two days as the price and food situation in Shanghai neared a crisis.
The new price is 60,000 Communist dollars for a 165-pound bag. Simultaneously, the official exchange rate increased from 1,850 to 1,950 for one U.S, dollor.
to
This official rate remained farvolution cannot work mogle but Bella the prire of rice, to pessimism is unnecessary," which wages are pegged. When Since employers say they can the Communist dellar was 1,000 not possibly raise payrolls to one a month ago, rica was meet the rice price jumps, efforts sling for 1,1,030 Communist ure being made to shift woges dollars.
from a rice basis to some other _The_catuses—are numerous,_in_index.system.
cluding the Nationalat block- Meanwhile the Yangise River ade, disrupted communications, food
food remains critical. The crest floods and crop losses.
yet reached the lower
has not
In the past, such price- Jumps | valley. were partly combated by dum- Report say that the entire city ping U.S. Economie Co-operation of Wuhu, 250 miles up-stream, Adininistration (ECA) rlet at Is Booded, with people sleeping ixed prices, Now there is no with water under their bods ECA rice.
Associated Press,
It appears that a vast number of rice-cwing Chinese are going to have to start eating something clze,
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ANOTHER CRATER ERUPTS
Santa Cruz, July 17. Lava began pouring from the Afth crater of Mount Peledn volcano today, spreading fre and destruction along Ite
march to the sea.
Exports-prodlet, however, that the volcano now in full eruption, will soon be subsiding.
Four other craters, all of which are 50 yards in diameter, erupted, a fortnight ago.
Volunteer fire fighters returning to the island's capital from the fscene said that three mountain villoges are already completely engulfed by lava and others have been partially destroyed. Almost all vegetation has been burned the Island. from the entire Southern half of
times because of continuous earth Standing upright is difficult al shocks.
Berlin, July 17. Walter Ulbricht, East Gor many's No. 2 Communist, admitted The Communists are shipping lang"
in an article in "Neuen Deutsch- hundreds of tons of soya beans members of the Communist Party today that no German to this region from the North.
have supported "the treasonable The
pro-Communist 'paper
polities of the Tito clique in the "SIN Wan
past year.
Except for light from the flans- Shanghal residents must be patient white the difficulties of to recognise "the leading role of working almost in
castigated those who failed ing volcano, the fire fighters ure darkness to block the Soviet Union in the fight for stem forest fires, because of heayy pence and the liberation rols of clouds of smoke and powdered
Saviet
Army."—Associated | rock hiding the sun.--Associated
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U.S. Economy Slowing me that the canton in the fines
New York, July 17.
There is a gonoral feeling that the downward,
trond in the economy of the United States is slowing, the "New York Times" said today in a nation-wide survey of business conditions. The newspaper said that observers on the East Coost are less optimistic than those in the rest of the country. President Truman's actions in
"1 private capital is exported overting the steel strike and in to move agnin freely between
the
must Government countries announcing
discontinue policy of
foreign aid in terms of gifts as defelt financing have Keemed to give the national mod soon as feasible.
lift, the newspaper stated,
I added: "There Is a feeling that the problem has been brought into clear focus and can be dealt with."
"The Times", analysis of the national position 15.
New England-Britain's plan to cut Imports worries the cotton industry.
The South mark the business view of the econ le situation.
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The Central States:-Many al- servers forcee the end of the eur- rent decline,
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"Another decade of grants-in- aid on the order of the magnitude of
many billion dollars wouki probably clo more harm than good. Instend of rebuilding the International capital market t would make the deficit countries so used to gifts that they would not want to borrow any more." Reuter.
Dakota's Crash In Desert
Cairo, July 17. Nine charred bodied had so far been found this morning in the wreckage of 战 French Dakota aircraft which caught fire and crashed near Merah Matruh, 180 miles West of Alexandrin Saturday evening, a French Em- bassy spokesman said today.
on
United States Imports must Increase more than her exports The plane is believed to have If the problem of the foreign had a crew of nine. Search of trade gap le to be mat, accord. the wreckage for possible other ing to the study.
victims is continuing.
The study, made by a group A French Embassy delegation
economists at Tuft's College,
carly today reached the crash and Massachusetts, said: We must close the trade gap by quis tem churred pieces.
found the plane shattered into)
porarily, by louns and investments during a transition period, and in the end by a high level of im- Doria,
There is no alternative
solution.
"An import surplus need not mean that our exports decreuse. All that is needed is that Imports Increase more than our exports,
"This means that we can best meet our problems as a creditor nation through expansion rather than 'contraction of international trade.
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Press reports quoted witnesses of the crash as saying that plane caught fire two miles from the Mediterranean shore and dived toward sonie Band dunes Mersa Matruh. Just before it' struck one wing fell off.-Asso-] elated Press,
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