CONTINUED FOOD SHORTAGE/EXPORT OF NEWSPRINT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500590376-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 376
• Publication Date: July 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Continued Food Shortage/Export of Newsprint
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"A difficult food situation exists today in Shanghai resulting in stringent
rationing and soaring prices of foodstuffs. Scarcity of most on the market
forced people to register a week in advance in order to purchase meat. The
price of pork was prohibitive. Lard, oil and kerosene were rationed. Shanghai
schools teaching Engliah for four hours a day were ordered to cut dowi the time
to an hour daily. Other foodstuffs on the ration list in Shanghai are milk,
sugar, tea, and other normal requirements, also, White Rice. Communist soldiers
armed with tong guns patrol street corners in the city. Last week on Lapps Is-
land, a few hundred yards off on the western side of Macau, Ccsmsunist motor launches
opened fire on a couple of fishing junks, and their shots wounded two Co>