Untitled

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1941, Page 5

FOOD RATION REDUCED IN GERMANY 1 IN SPITE OF REPEATED PROTESTS. SATISFACTORY DELIVERY OF PARCELS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 2. Information was recently received that the rations for British prisoners of war in German hands were reduced on June 3 in conformity with the reduction in the food allowance for the German civilian population. In actual fact, however, these reduced figures are no larger than the diet sheet known to have been in force in several camps for some time past. The Geneva Prisoners of War Convention provides that the food ration for prisoners of war shall be equivalent in quantity and quality of that of depot troops. No information has been provided on the rations issued to depot troops since June 3.

Repeated protests have been made to Germany concerning her failure to observe the terms of the convention as it applies to food rations. These representations are being renewed. The failure of Germany to fulfil these obligations fortunately does not mean that the health of British prisoners of war is likely to be endangered. Food parcels are being delivered in satisfactory numbers to the camps through the International Red Cross Committee, mainly from supplies sent cut by the British Red Cross Society.