EUROPE'S SHORTAGE OF FOOD

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 37, 8 January 1943, Page 4

EUROPE'S SHORTAGE OF FOOD

RECENT reports from countries occupied by the enemy have told of a strengthening of the resistance offered to the aggressors. This tendency is due not only to the mental and social evils to which the over-ridden people are subjected, but also in great measure to the physical distresses imposed by the relentless Nazi policy of seizing all stocks of food, so that, as Goering said in his speech the other day, Germans will be fed even if all other. Europeans starve. The "new order" in Europe gives place at the high table to the "herrenvolk" alone. Below the; salt are ranged the subject peoples, the Western Europeans getting the best of the meagre leavings while Poles rank liowest, except for the Jews. Even Germany's allies are kept on short rations. The ration of thirty-seven ounces of bread allowed in Italy is about half of that allowed in Germany, and, all other foodstuffs being scarce or unobtainable, the Italian masses are existing on thft edge of starvation. Thus Hitlier visits his contempt on an ineffective partner. His Danubian allies, normally large exporters of food, have been presented with bread cards. Rumania, suffers two breadless days a week Their gullible Governments are the designed to clothe Germany more richly. The has eaten up pre-war stocks, is due and the many culture by the var. In of the the Goering able promise cupied countries in rations have already been raised in point reached on April 6 last. parison with those at the very much more generous than thos^^^^^^^^^^^^H 1918. Even the Germans, are well fed their neighbours, there is deep greatest sufferers the feeling be reaching