FOOD IN WEST GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25178, 8 May 1947, Page 7

FOOD IN WEST GERMANY

INADEQUACY CAUSING CONCERN

RATION IN INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 7. . The correspondent of “The Times” m Berlin says the inadequacy ot the food supplies in the combined British and American area of Germany is still causing the deepest concern. The Russian controlled press in Berlin again speaks of a new in western Germany, but it is dbubtful whether the situation is any more critical now than it has been for months. That, however, in no way lessens the gravity of the problem facing the British, American, and Gerinan authorities. In many large Industrial communities the ration is now between 800 and 900 calories, instead of the 1350 calories that the United States and Britain promised and had hoped to maintain. Conditions are better in agricultural districts, and there is no reason to suppose that most people there are not reasonably well fed. In fact, one cause of the trouble elsewhere is that farmers dre not delivering to the towns anything like the quantities of food required of them.