POSITION IN BRITISH ZONE IN GERMANY

Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1946, Page 5

POSITION IN BRITISH ZONE IN GERMANY

| LOXDOX, IMav 19. ! Bntisb Iicadquarters in Germany announced tliat altliougli bread grain | stocks are now too low to ensure an leven distribution, tlie existing ration Jseaio will be mainlaiued at least until '.Tune 25. i 'Ihe Daily Mail says tliat the maintenae.ee- of the present seale was niade possible by .M ;■ Morrison 's proinise last Iweek tliat Britain would forgo a further 200.000 tons of wbeat for the May- ! Siqit einber jieriod. The Dtiily Alail 1 adds that Cabinet agrecd to gamble with Britain's wheat reserves against the eertainty of starvation in the Briti isli /oue after they had been advised J 1 iv coal experts that a bread cut would jmean tt catasl rophic dccline in the I lluli r out ]iut. | British head(|uarters have pledgod 'ihe ration for the period after .Tune 25. aud it will be aimounced not later I thiin June 15. by when it is Itoped that ■ liigh-speed farming methods will have jbroughl in Ihe Jirst of the Gerinan harvest. | Coal experls, rejiorting to Cabinet, iiold of women and children waiting | for hotirs :it the }iitheads, lioping for a jcup of sou]> left over from Ihe moal i •; i \- «■ ii to workers. Aliners were taking jlheir meals home for their families, ■ and were tlien working on emjity jslomitehs. This was strictly forbidden. but the law was not enforced because ■ of the psvehological reaction of the men.