FOOD IN EUROPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 5

FOOD IN EUROPE

GERMANS MUCH FAVOURED AS COMPARED WITH PEOPLE OF OCCUPIED AREAS. RUTHLESS EXPLOITATION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 26. How much better the Germans fare than the peoples who have succumbed to Nazi “protection” is illustrated by details which recently reached competent British official quarters from a reliable source. These show that the bread ration in Germany is 51b a week, compared with 411 b in "the Netherlands, 3 l-31b in Belgium and 2-Jlb. in the protectorates. German butter and margarine rations are nine ounces a week, whereas the Danish rations are four ounces, and in the protectorates consumers are only allowed 5.} ounces of all fats. In Poland all foodstuffs are much more drastically rationed than in Germany, but the German population enjoys preferential treatment. In general the particulars available show clearly that the longer a territory has been under the Nazi heel the more drastic are the cuts in its rations and the more forcibly are its people compelled to reduce their living standards for the benefit of the German consumer.

A dispatch from Copenhagen appearing in the Swedish newspaper, “Aftonbladet” on August 21 throw additional light on the way the conquered territories are exploited. The correspondent comments on the extraordinary circumstances that Denmark, of all the Scandinavian countries the richest in sugar.and a country which exported sugar largely, is suddenly without sugar. Last year Denmark had a record crop of 20 per cent in excess of ntormal. Where has the sugar suddenly gone? The correspondent has given a sly twist to the apparently naive answer to his question which discretion impelled him to make. It is possible. he says, that the Danish Government is making a secret store for trading abroad.