BARTER AGREEMENT WITH GERMANS

Evening Star, Issue 23845, 27 March 1941, Page 9

BARTER AGREEMENT WITH GERMANS

VICHY, March 26. (Received March 27, at 11.30 a.m.) The Germans’ have released from the occupied zone 2,000,000 of the 2,700,000 tons of wheat. This is part of a vast barter arrangement with the unoccupied zone. NEW ACCORD REPORTED AMERICA SEEKS INFORMATION WASHINGTON, March 26. (Received March 27, at 1 p.m.) The State Department cabled the [Ambassador (Admiral Leahy) for a complete report on the new food accord reported to have been reached between the occupied and unoccupied zones in France. Pending receipt of the report, State Department officials withheld comment on what effect, if any, the arrangement might have on the plans (already approved for two Red Cross shipments of flour to unoccupied France, or on French efforts to dbtain further grain supplies from the United States. FRENCH INDUSTRY PROSPECTS OF RESTARTING DISCUSSED LONDON, March 25. * The Times ’ says that M. JBrinon has gone to Paris from Vichy after discussing the possibility of restarting French industry fully. Numerous important orders are ready to be placed, presumably by Germany, because M. Brinon discussed the question of making available German raw materials to factories accepting orders. The food shortage in unoccupied France docs not improve and further cats in the bread, meat, poultry, and trgg rations will be introduced soon. Stocks are officially half of what they were last summer, but illicit stocks are abundant and illicit trade flourishes. Private individuals also have largo stocks because food hoarding has been going on on a large scale since the armistice.