NO SHORTAGE IN LONDON

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 5

NO SHORTAGE IN LONDON

NAZI CLAIMS DENIED REPORTS BY AMERICANS (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 20, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 19 , The complete failure of the enemy raids to impair London’s food supplies claimed by the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, is well borne i out in reports made last night by two j American correspondents. Mr John McVane, broadcasting j from London on the national broadcasting system, said: ‘’One of the national broadcast- ! ing observers came through Covent J Garden and ' found it crammed j with every kind of. fruit and j vegetables you can imagine. There ; were boxes of Tasmanian apples, j South Afriaan grapefruit and i lettuce by the truck-load, and j many other perishable commodities which must have been brought in during the night. “This does not mean that this big town has not been badly battered in the past 24 hours. It is merely a reminder that London is a vast area which cannot be knocked out by a few bombers in a few days or even weeks of con- | stant raiding.” Not Going to Win War I Mr H. R. Knickerbocker, in a message to New York, wrote: “This sort of destruction is cer- ( tainlynot going to win the war, and today, after touring the city’s principal markets, I can testify that the German radio’s claim that the Luftwaffe is gradually starving London is simply imbecile. “If there is any shortage at Covent Garden, London’s biggest and most famous market, it is not visible to the naked eye, It takes just as long now to thread one’s way through its lanes and alleys, 1 piled mountain high with every 1 variety of food, as it ever did in J peace-time.”