FAMISHED EUROPE.
FOOD CONDITIONS APPALLING. SUBSTANTIAL RELIEF ORGANISED. Received March 13, 8.20 p.m. Loudon, March 12. Mr. Q. H. Roberts, British Food Minister, states that the food conditions in enemy countries are appalling. It is reported that at Lemberg the death-rate exceeds the birth rate by 20 per cent. This is typical of large areas. The people of Prague are positively starving, and Britain is sending to Prague forthwith 200,000 tins of condensed milk. The Supreme Economic Council is organising tsubstautial general relief. The greatest difficulty is due to the breakdown of internal transport through the workers' physical exhaustion
Mr. Roberts adds that the people of Britain needn't be apprehensive that feeding the enemy will create a shortage in Britain. Our first concern is sufficiency and lowered prices for our own people, then to fulfil the demands of our allies. He was convinced that we were able to furnish food to the famiahed people of Europe. The latter was really essential to prevent the spread of infectious anarchism.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1919, Page 5
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172FAMISHED EUROPE. Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1919, Page 5
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