Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1945 — Page 16

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HUNGER TAKING “TOLL IN OSAKA

Second Largest Jap City Hit By Famine.

By WILLIAM McGAFFIN Times Foreign Service ¥ TOKYO, Oct. 18. ~The first visible Signs of starvation ire Japan are beginning to appear in Osaka, according to travelers just returned from that city. Osaka, the second largest city : in the country i with a prewar t population of t nearly 3,000,000, was formerly a ! great industrial * center, depending : on other parts of Japan for its food RO supply. Mr. McGaffin Now, disrupted stransport and other circumstances ‘have made the food situation there | worse, perhaps, than that of any 4 other Japanese city. !. Travelers say bodies of persons ‘who starved to death are to be seen ‘in alleyways and that persons still “alive but in the last stages of mal- * hutrition are lying around the rail“UN ! way station hoping to pick up scraps s sof food. 3 i Black market prices are higher in : Dsaka than in any other city, it i vas recently demonstrated by a na-%tion-wide survey of the All-Japan “Farmers Co-Operative union, "| Such commodities as eggs, butte: 7 hnd milk are not to be had at an) % price, while 10 pounds of sugar cos ‘as much as $100. Typhoon Ruins Crops + Destruction of crops by the recent jo rains is distressingly evident from train windows on the trip from Tokyo to Osaka. Rice crops, potatoes and other + substitute staples have been washed : Away. Farmers, their shoulders bent ‘in discouragement, wade through flelds swimming in water. Japanese soldiers demobilized and ¢ returned home will not be of much

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: crops, Meantime, they mean more { mouths to feed. : , Another sign of the times, accord- « ing to travelers, are masses of Ko- ! reans camping in Osaka's railway + station futilely awaiting trains on ; which to start the journey back to ' Korea, Osaka has the largest Ko-

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