WINTER OF HUNGER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 3

WINTER OF HUNGER

IN PROSPECT FOR EUROPE GERMAN MEAT RATION INCREASED. ON ACCOUNT OF SHORTAGE OF FODDER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEV/ YORK, October 14. Axis-dominated Europe faces the hungriest .winter in modern history, according to the indications available to the Agriculture Department, says the Washington correspondent of the “Wall Street Journal." Experts estimate that the wheat and rye output is 15 per cent less than last year, and the crops in Germancontrolled Russia are insufficient to provide the additional 10,000,000 tons of grain that will be needed for maintaining the bread ration. Therefore fodder grain must be diverted from the livestock, which will result in increased slaughtering in 1942-43. Making a virtue of necessity, the Nazis have boosted the German meat ration, and British and American experts say that the emergency slaughtering, rather than Field-Marshal Goering’s fairy tales about an improved food situation, explains the increased meat allowance. The Ukraine has also bitterly disappointed the Nazis because the harvest last year was 50 per cent below the normal, and this year it is expected to be even less. Germany will obtain there only 200,000- to 300,000 tons of grain, which will be just enough to cover half the needs of the occupation army.