FOOD RIOTS IN PARIS
SUPPLIES SEIZED BY NAZIS POSITION REGARDED AS SERIOUS LONDON, February 21. A Rories of food riots aro reported to have taken place in Paris ns protests against the Germans having seized supplies for the troops. Despatches from Vichy and also niesnges 'vhich have reached Free French sources describe how mothers with babies gathered outside town halls and demanded that milk be supplied immediately. One of the most serious of the events occurr 1 cd < at the Central Food Market after the Germans had swept the market clean of potatoes. Free Belgian agencies state that the position is catastrophic, and is worse than it was in Spain during the civil war.
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Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 11
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114FOOD RIOTS IN PARIS Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 11
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