FRENCH BREAD RATION
REDUCTION ANNOUNCED PARIS, August 27. The French Cabinet has decided to reduce the daily bread ration from 250 to 200 grammes on September 1 because of “the deplorable state" of the harvest and the unprecedented deficit expected between France’s need? and the available potential supplies. The new rations will mean that the French will get a Uttle more than 31b of bread a week compared with the British ration qf 4JJb. Reliable source? say that France intends to slash severely all imports from dollar countries except such essentials as wheat and coal, France had a dollar deficit equalling £52,500,000 on a planned £112,500.000 import programme, so that vast reductions in imports were necessary.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25275, 29 August 1947, Page 7
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