GERMAN RATIONING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 5

GERMAN RATIONING.

SARCASTIC ITALIAN PAPER. LONDON, November 24. Sarcastic references to Germany’s rationing system, contained ini a recent issue of the Italian paper “IPopolc di Roma,” are quoted in Saturday’s “Daily Telegraph.” "With the evident aim of proving to Italian, girls that they do not know when they are well off, the writer describes fyow a 'German fraulein disposed of all but 14 of her 150 clothes ration card pqints on one woollen, dress, one petticoat, one blouse, and a few handkerchiefs and stockings. In order to get a pair of pyjamas after that, she had to borrow some points from a friend. Still needing a, new coat, she had to go before the committee, which insisted on her depositing her old coat before granting her the necessary bonus points. She was lucky, explained the writer. If she had had neither points nor coat, she would have had to apply to the police, who had the right to inspect her wardrobe to see if a, coat were really needed. “A viery simple matter. That is, simple in Germany,” the writer comments. ■ “Hats may still he bought without a. ration card. The police have not yet poked, their noses into these branches of feminine elegance,” he adds'.

The “Daily Telegraph” points out that while such details as these only prove to the Italian signorita that things are even worse in Germany than Italy, tl»2y are' hardly likely to win enthusiasm far tho Reich. —British Official Wireless.