GOAL FOR VIENNA

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 31, 6 August 1945, Page 6

GOAL FOR VIENNA

ARRIVAL FROM BRITISH ZONE

LONDON, August 5

Six hundred tons of coal arrived in ■Vienna today from the British-occu-pied zone in Styria. It will be distributed by the Soviet authorities and will be used for essential purposes, particularly to keep the bakeries going. The Russians asked for the coal at an emergency meeting, and there are to be further talks between the Allied commands on general transport problems. ' The arrival of the coal tram fol-lowed-the arrival yesterday of .the firstfhrough train from Rome to Vienna. The journey took ten days; before the war it occupied 20 hours. The train's arrival was regarded as a triumph for British railway engineers, who had a gigantic task in repairing bomb-shattered bridges and railway embankments in the mountains. A dispatch from the British-occu-pied zone in Germany says that owing to the acute clothing, shortage, substitute materials are to appear again. All available German .clothing stocks havelbeen frozen, and articles will be issued to only four classes of people: those bombed out, displaced persons, expectant mothers, and young children. No clothing or footwear will be sent* to Germany from Britain this ■winter." The British Control Commission says that individual clothing stocks are good, so the Germans will not", be badly off for the next two months. After that, the outlook is not so good, because clothing factories can produce only 30 per cent, of their prewar'output.