CENTRAL EUROPE.
SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF FOOD. I PRAGUE STARVING. * | (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March 13th, 8.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 12. Mr G. H. Roberts, British Food Minister, states tliat the food conditions in the enemy countries are appalling. It is reported that at Lemberg the death-rate exceeds the birthrate by twenty per cent, and this is typical of large areas. The people of Prague are positively starving. Great Britain is sending to PragUe forthwith two hundred tons of condensed milk. The Supreme Economic Council iB organising substantial general relief. The greatest difficulty is due to the breakdown of internal transport through the workers' physical exhaustion. Mr Roberts adds: The people of Great Britain need not be apprehensive that the feeding of the enemy will create a shortage in Great Britain. Our firs'; concern is sufficiency and lowered' prices for our own people, then, to fulfil the demands bf the Allies. I am convinced that wo will be able to fur* nish food to the famished people of Europe. The latter is really essential to prevent the spread of infeotious anarchism.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16471, 14 March 1919, Page 7
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