DEARTH OF FOOD
FAMINE IN GERMANISED POLAND. BRIBERY RAMPANT AMONG OFFICIALS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. A special correspondent of “The Times" says the lack of food and fuels in Germanised Poland borders on the catastrophic. The theft of fuel during transport is resulting in short deliveries. Distribution is under the control of German officials, among whom bribery is rampant. Signs of famine have appeared in Warsaw, where threequarters of the population are subsisting on potatoes and cabbage, with no bread and no fats. Relief organisations are providing a quarter of a million meals daily
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 6
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102DEARTH OF FOOD Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1940, Page 6
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