GERMAN MEASURES
GROWING AMXIETY REVEALED
RUGBY, April 22. Germany's growing anxiety lest the British blockade should achieve its full purpose and a grand offensive by the Allied nations become a stern reality after all is revealed by an official of the Ministry of Economic Warfare, who announced several significant developments.
First in importance, he said, was the decree rationing potatoes, which, even in peacetime, formed the staple food for the humbler Germans. The decree makes about 51b weekly the maximum, and provides for the shortening of stocks held for various purposes, the closing of starch factories, and severe restriction on spirit factories.
Another measure, which may be directed to counter commando raids, will take more than half the French production of cement—about 2,500,000 tons.
The German authorities have ordered the Latvian peasants to surrender before April 30 all the wheat and rye they possess, except sufficient to feed their families till the new harvest.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 96, 24 April 1942, Page 5
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