PARISIANS’ FOOD

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 264, 4 August 1944, Page 5

PARISIANS’ FOOD

Dilemma For Frenchmen (Received August 3, 8.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 2. Reports from Paris emphasize the danger of famine to the 4,000.000 inhabitants of thf Paris region if the battle of France is prolonged, says the Algiers correspondent of the “New York Times.” The French patriots, responding to orders from the Allied high command, have been cutting and destroying communications. This not only hampers the German movements but. also interrupts the flow of food to Paris. Normandy, which formerly was the chief source of the Parisians’ food, is now cut off by the invasion. The French people in Algiers are worried nt. the prospective plight of Paris, but are unwilling to ask the Allies to limit their military efforts. The only hope seems to lie in a short campaign. Paris is in effect besieged, since the Germans have forbidden Parisians to leave the city. The officially-constituted stocks ef food are reported to be sufficient only for four weeks.

Paris radio says that bombs were dropped in the northern and north-west-ern suburbs of Paris this evening.

ROMMEL’S INJURIES

LONDON, August 2. The German news agency announced that following an air attack Field Marshal Rommel met with an accident and suffered injuries and concussion.