EUROPE’S RATIONS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13240, 16 January 1941, Page 8

EUROPE’S RATIONS

i POSITION PRIOR TO WINTER _________ ' i Indications of the true position of i food supplies in Europe are given i from time to time by official ration announcements. Marked changes have occurred. German rations haie , increased in some lines, while * n ! countries occupied by the Nazis, tedactions have been enforced, evidence of the “looting” through which the ! “pure Aryan” has fed himself at the expense of peoples he regards as his racial inferiors. Ration information from Europe, | corrected up to the end of October, shows the following maximum quantities for one person for a week i (though it does not follow that peoi pie can obtain them): i Germany: Bread SO oz., meat 17 5 oz., sugar 8 oz., fats 9 X oz., coffee |35 oz. (substitute). | German Protectorate: Bread 4 4 ! oz,. meat S oz., sugar 10 5 oz., fats | 5a oz., coffee 35 oz. (substitute). I Italy: Sugar 45 oz., fats (butter, olive oil or lard) 7 oz., coffee, only in ! hospitals and the army, i Poland: Bread 6 2 oz., meat 9 oz., •sugar 5i oz., fats (butter) oz. j France: Bread 87 oz., meat 12 5 ! oz., sugar 45 oz., fats (margarine or 1 vegetable oil) 35 oz., coffee 3 oz. j (mixture). * Belgium: Bread 58 oz., sugar 71 oz., fats 13 5 oz., coffee 3 oz. Denmark: Bread 17| oz. white and 525 oz. rye, sugar 13 oz., fats 4 oz. (margarine), coffee 1 oz. ! Netherlands: Bread 71 oz. white or i 89 oz. rye, meat 175 oz., sugar 9 oz., 1 fats 9 oz., coffee 13 oz. j For comparison the case of Switz- ; erland is cited. Bread, meat and cofj fee are not subject to ration, but I each person is allowed 17 5 oz. of ; j sugar and 9 oz. of edible fat or oil 1 in each week. j German policy is governed by'two * major considerations: — (a) To avoid shocking too bfrisque- 1 ly,. by the sudden lowering of stand- ] ards of living, people brought under _ Nazi “protection.” ‘ (b) Influence of the blockade and of transport problems in Europe.