Food Shortage In American
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Samoa
From Our Own Correspondent APIA, April 13.
THE Tutuila, which left Apia for Pago Pago (American Samoa) on April 6, besides a shipment of four tons of cocoa beans, carried a full load of oil and Samoan foodstuffs—yams, taro and ban anas etc. —to relieve the famine now rul ing in American Samoa.
According to reports, Pago Pago stores have completely sold out their staple foodstuffs like flour, rice, sugar and bis cuits owing to the shortage of native foodstuffs, which in turn is a result of the ravages of the January storm.