ALLIED AUTHORITY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 54, 1 September 1945, Page 7

ALLIED AUTHORITY

HOPES ABOUT ELECTIONS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, August 30. The Allied Control Commission has issued a proclamation to the German people, formally announcing the Control Council's assumption of supreme authority throughout Germany. General Eisenhower stated, after a meeting of the Control Council in Berlin, that he hoped German elections would be held this autumn. The main tasks of the occupation authorities were the provision of food, heat, and housing. Rations to the amount of 2000 calories daily should be made available, but he could not say when that would be possible. The coal requirements of liberated countries must have priority over German needs. The Allies plan to take reparations from German production for six years or more, according to Judge Edwin Pauley, American representative of the Allied Reparations Commission, states a Washington message. The western European Allies have been invited to submit reparations claims by October 1, after which claimant nations will confer in western Europe. Similar 1 invitations have not been sent to Latin-American countries because it is expected that German ass.ets seized in those lands will provide adequate compensation. The Belgian Foreign Minister, Mr. Spaak, disclosed that Belgium will participate in the occupation of Germany. • The exact limits of the occupation zone have not been determined, but reorganisation of the Belgian forces and extra military expenditure might be involved. Mr. Spaak, referring to reparations, said he had asked for exploitation throughout Belgium of a proportion of German coal resources for a certain period. Belgium's economic position was making good progress, but the country could not afford to give up its right to reparations. Luxemburg radio announced that an Allied census showed that the population of Berlin was 2,784,000, of which 65 per cent, were women, compared with a pre-war population of 4,330,000.