FAMINE REPORTED
THOUSANDS DIE IN BELGIUM LONDON, April 8. Famine has overtaken Belgium at the end of a long winter, says The Times correspondent at Lisbon. Social workers say that thousands have actually died from starvation in Brussels alone. The climax has come in a lack of potatoes, which are the , country's staple food. The potato ration nominally is 331b a month, but few persons in February and March were able to buy 4ilb a month. Milk is now given only to children and aged people. Meat is scarce. Peasants are facing an even grimmer year, because France has stopped supplies of seed potatoes and other essential seed and fodder.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1942, Page 7
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