Nine Million May Die

Chronicle (Levin), 17 May 1946, Page 5

Nine Million May Die

Press Assn.-

grain suppl1es needed

By Telegraph

■Copyright

■ Received Triday,. 12.56 a.m. BERL1N, May 16. Uiiless grain ships arrive hefore the end of May, 9,000,000 Germans in the British zone will d.ie of starvation in under a-month. iius estimate is contained in a warning given fby senioi officers of the Health and F.ood Division of the I^ritish. Military Government. Drawing attention to the possihility that the present ration of 1050 cailories might drop to 400 or 500 calories daily, if sufficient grain is not imported hy the beginning of June, the oihcers expressed the opinion that Germans even on the present calory ration could last only roughly a month. Deaths might be staved off hy the use of private stocks and hlack marketing. Mr. Herbert Morrison, in a broadcast, referred to the United States Agricuitural Department's efforts to discouragt the feeding of food to animals.. iue saiu he had read innumerahle accounts oi human starvation, hut had never heara of a hog starving. "I get a nightmare feeling about this livestock business. I can almost see immense droves of fatter and fatte, hogs trampling down thousands oi frailer and frailer men, women and chu dren and shoving them away from the bread they need to keep alive."