VEGETABLES FOR GERMANY
THREE FOODSHIPS LEAVE BRITAIN
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. The "Daily Herald” says that three foodships left Britain for Germany yesterday, carrying the first delivery of 11,500 tons of vegetables. Answering a number of questions in the House of Commons about the food shortage and its effect, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr John Hynd) said that a supplementary shipment of 1,250,000 tons of wheat had been necessary to maintain rations in the British zone of Germany. Such imports were no longer available on that scale, dhd therefore a cut was infevitable. The allocation of the world’s grain supply was about to be reviewed in Washington. He was not in a position to say what amounts would be available for the British zone of Germany, or whether further ration cuts would be necessary, until the results of the Washington conversations were known.
When several members deplored the pctsibility of ftirthOr ration cuts In Germany, Mr Hynd said that he was pfraid that the ration must have a relation to the amount Of food available, whatever the results.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24820, 9 March 1946, Page 7
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