FACING FAMINE.
SERIOUS PLIGHT OF FRANCE.
PLUNDERING BY GERMANS.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, October 30.
German plundering is leading France to famine, according to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. The bread ration is 87 ounces a head a Aveelc, as a result of the removal of at least 800,000 tons of wheat to Germany.
The meat ration is ounces a wcck, five ounces loss than in Germany, to which much live-stock has been transported. A million pigs were removed in a fortnight in September, and thousands of cattle.
The average consumption of butter has fallen from 17 kilograms to five or six kilograms. France was originally self-sufficient in sugar, hut about 80 per cent, of the crop was lost this year because of the fighting in the north. The Germans have requisitioned the whole of the Bordeaux grape harvest. One firm has . delivered 12,000,000 bottles of champagne to Germany.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 18, 1 November 1940, Page 5
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