RATS FOR FOOD
STARVATION IN BELGIUM & FRANCE REPORT BY AMERICAN DOCTOR. GERMANS SEIZING BULK OF SUPPLIES. I (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, November 11. The food situation in Belgium is now so desperate that a plump rat brings 20 francs in Brussels, said Dr Bessie Strongman, an American physician, upon her return from Europe, where she served with the Society of Friends. She added that conditions in Marseilles were almost as shocking. Few clothes were obtainable and no coal, and there was a shortage of food. “While much food, clothing and shoes are brought into Marseilles, at least 80 per cent goes to Germany, and likewise 85 per cent of the olive oil from Spain,” she said. M. Henry Haye, the French Ambassador in Washington, appealed to President Roosevelt to unfreeze sufficient French funds to purchase food in the United States for the people in France who would otherwise be threat-, ened with extermination by starvation. M. Haye said that President Roosevelt was most sympathetic, and pro-, mised to look into the matter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1941, Page 5
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