BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLIES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23053, 22 June 1940, Page 12

BRITAIN'S FOOD SUPPLIES

ACCESS TO SOURCES OVERSEAS COMPARISON MADE WITH GERMANY -V IHKITISII OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) ■'(Received June 21, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, June 20. While the brutal German invasion cl their countries now faces many formerly free peoples of Europe with the threat of starvation as they lie helpless tinder Nazi domination, they may take heart even m their cruel plight from: the fact that the forces still battling for freedom have the prospect of plentiful food supplies in the bitter struggle they have vowed to carry ho victory. News from Ottawa is that Canada is likely to break all records in grain production. Of wheat she has nearly 1.500.C00 more acres this year—--28,243.300 acres. compared with 25,753,500 in 1.939. In eastern Canada, moreover, ample rainfall for crop growth has fallen during the last two weeks, and in the maritime provinces the rains have resulted in ah excellent growth of pastures and. - forage crops. Satisfactory reports Kbve also been received of crops in British Columbia. where fine, warm weather has been experienced. In addition, Canada will have a record carry-over of 241,000.000 bushels of wheat at July 31, compared with last year’s carry-over of 102,000,000 bushels and the previous record of-, 203.000.000 bushels in 1933. The supplies this year will be 391.500,000,000 bushels, leaving 431,500,000,000. bushels available for export. The Nazi conquerors, in uneasy occupation of despoiled territories and threatened with a serious, shortage of the food necessary to maintain the morale of their own people, must ponder anxiously and enviously Britain’s access to almost limitless supplies of food from overseas.