DEARTH IN ITALY
SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE ALREADY MAKING ITSELF FELT, BAD OUTLOOK FOR WINTER. (By Telegraph—Press Associal ion—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, November 29. The Department of Agriculture reports that the British blockade of the Mediterranean is so effective that Italy faces the winter deprived of over 30 per cent of her imports, including foodstuffs. agricultural and raw materials. Many of the poorer classes are suffering from malnutrition. Prices have increased 40 per cent. Lack of fats, oil and meats, in which the country is most deficient, is likely to increase. Meat, fresh pastry and ice cream are at present permitted only three times a week. The monthly ration of olive oil.'a major item of diet, is restricted to one pint, and butter, lard or suet to three-quarters of a pound. The sugar allowance has been reduced. Cotton is expected to be exhausted within .a few weeks. The effects of food shortage are most acute in Southern Italy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1940, Page 6
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