Food For Starving Europe

Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1946, Page 5

Food For Starving Europe

Press Assn.

f GUARD AGAINST PLUNDERING

By Telegraph

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Received Saturday, T0.30 a.m. LONDON, May 24. Train-loads of food guarded by picked Swiss units against plunderers are leaving Switzerland shortly for Germany, Austria and Hungary under a Government-spon-sored reiief programme, says Reui ter's Berne eorrespondent. ! There are about 1,000,000 children jin Switzerland and as a gesture to jsuarving Europe the Federal Council has decided to help feed the same number of children in Germany, Austria and Hungary for six I weeks. The Federal Gouncil has i ailocated 10,600 tons of food, main- ' lv sugar, chocolate, condensed Imilk, vegetables, fats and tinhed imeats, for the programme and has placed a credit of £9,000 at the disposal of the reiief organisation. Special delegates will keep a rigorous watch that none of the food i disappears to the blackhiarket. Most of the goods are going to the British zone in Germany. j Germans Loot Potato Trains I A message from the Ruhr says that flying squads of armed German police and motorised platoons ' will in future escort all potato trains through the Ruhr's "hunger belt," where mass attacks by looters have increased in number and viol- : ence. i The latest incidents, in which !more than 100 were arrested, in- ! clude ones at Mulheim and Spel|dorf. A track keeper trying to rej move stones from the line was stoned by a crowd of 300 men and women who then looted a potato train. Another crowd looting a train fired on the police who returned the fire. At G'elsenkircher two potato trains were raided by a large crowd and looted. At Duisburg 500 men, women and children raided three potato trains and fought the ; civil, military and railway police.