EXTRA FOOD FOR BELGIANS
MILITARY SUPPLIES RELEASED LONDON, Oct. 27. Major-General G. W. Erskine, Deputy Supreme Commander in Belgium, in a broadcast announced that the military authorities had decided to give the Belgians 200 tons of military food supplies daily for 20 days from November 1 to tide them over the period of reorganisation, and supplement the present rations. Supplies would include as much fats and meat as possible. “We are going to have a very hard winter in Belgium, and will need all our qualities to pull through without undue hardship for the men at the front and civilians,” he said. “The enemv is not yet beaten. Belgium is still within range of flying-bombs and similar devices. We must be prepared to meet such attacks with calm determination.”
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24401, 30 October 1944, Page 5
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