UNRRA SHIPMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 5

UNRRA SHIPMENTS

BELOW REQUIREMENTS IN MARCH (Rec. 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 14. Although 1,526,000 tons of Unrra relief shipments reached liberated countries in March ' and created a record, Mr La Guardia said that the percentage of food in the total declined 5 per cent, compared with February, and was only 41 per cent, of the requirements. The main reason for the increased tonnage was the large percentage of coal shipments. He said the

shipments of bread, grains, oils, and fats fell far below the minimum needs, thus creating a dangerously critical food situation in all countries dependent on Unrra. In the meantime Russia had asked) the Combined Foods Board for 30.000 tons of fats and oils, and has sent two ships to Buenos Aires to (pictk up 8,000 tons of fats and vegetable oils if the request is granted. The Russian request is at present held in abeyance, because Russia has not furnished information concerning Soviet stocks of these commodities, on which any allocation must be made. pointed out that if the Russian request is granted it will entail further cuts, not only in the Unrra programme, but also in the allocations to France, Britain, and other Powers.