STILL HELD UP
BRITISH SHIPMENT
RUGBY, February 17,
The Minister of Economic Warfare, Dr. Dalton,. told the House of Commons that, in spite of representations through the International Red Cross, Britain had riot yet received a guarantee of safe conduct for the proposed first shipment of food to Greece through the enemy lines. The question of further relief was being considered.
The worst conditions in Germancontrolled Europe prevailed in Greece and occupied Russia, he said. Deaths from starvation were occurring in those territories.
The reports did not indicate any deaths in the other occupied territories directly due to . the food shortage, though in Belgium and France some part of an increase in mortality from certain diseases, notably pneumonia, was probably due to insufficient nutrition.
In Norway, the Netherlands, and Czecho-Slovakia the diet, though well below pre-war standards, had not been so inadequate as to cause any marked increase in the death-rate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1942, Page 6
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