FAMINE IN BELGIUM
DEATHS FROAI STARVATION THOUSANDS IN BRUSSELS ALONE GRIM AND TERRIBLE OUTLOOK. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, April 7. Famine has overtaken Belgium at the end of the long winter, says “The Times” correspondent in Lisbon. Social workers say that thousands of people have actually died from starvation in Brussels alone. The climax has come in a lack of potatoes, which was the country’s staple food. The potato ration is nominally 331 b. a month, but few persons in February and March were able to buy 411 b. a month. Milk is now given only to children and elderly persons', and meat is scarce.
The peasants are facing an even grimmer year, because France has stopped the supplies of seed potatoes and other essential seed and fodder.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1942, Page 3
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