MORTALITY RATE RISES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1942, Page 4

MORTALITY RATE RISES

CONDITIONS IN PARIS UNDER NAZIS. Reports reaching London from Paris show that the mortality rate rose by 21 per cent over normal in the month of May. The same report showed that tr.e theoretical rations, if one can get them, amounted to less than 1.100 calories per day. The strict minimum for health is 2.400. The difference of 1.300 calories in non-rationed food cost roughly 40 francs per head per day, a sum the wage-earner could not find. Compared with Germany, rations in France are only two-thirds of German rations for meat, one-half for sugar and one-third for fats. The Frenchman gets half his usual bread. He is entitled to a little over Albs, of tatoes a month, 11b. of meat, lib. sugar, half a pound of cheese, half a' pound of macaroni, and just under a quarter of a pound of coffee per month, but coffee that contains 75 per cent barley. Wine. France's national beverage, is limited to 1.? pints every five days. . . In a single county, Germans requisitioned 11 tons of butter per week over a long period, in addition to what was requisitioned for local troops of occupation. But the butter requisitioned was not sent to Germany; it went to Spain to pay for iron pyrites and other ores.