FOOD FOR GERMANS

Chronicle (Levin), 13 November 1946, Page 5

FOOD FOR GERMANS

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. — — - Rations To Be Maintained SUBSTITUTES FOR BREAD

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Received Wednesday, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 12. The British Government _ was fully conscious of the Gritical situation produced in the British zone of Germany throngh the slowing np of the last three months' grain deliveries from overseas, said the comniandef-in-chief of the British zone, Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, upon his return to Berlin from Lopdon. He added that discpggioiis Etbout Germany were proceeding amoiig tlie Foreign Ministers and tlie Hpited States. "Food imports will occupy a pi-qminent pjace in those discussioiis, and until we hear the result o'f theip it is impos^iole to ^tate a long term food prqgramme for Gerpiany," Sir Shqlto Douglas declared. Rtltionjng in the British zone would tie maintained at the present level of 1550 calqries daily until JFebruary 9. "It may be necessary in some places to substitute other foodstuffs. such as potatoes, sugar and biscu'its, for part of the bread ration," he addedSenior Military Government officials, at a Press Conference in Dusseldorf, said that Dusseldorf only had enough br-ead to last days. It was impossible to honour the bread ration to all bakery shops.