MALTA PROBLEMS
FOOD AND FUEL.
LONDON, February 26. Formidable difficulties in administration had been overcome in Malta during the enemy attacks, said the Governor of Malta, Field-Marshal Lord Gort, to-day. Lord Gort disclosed that last Summer the island had been without light and power because of lack of fuel. Lack of fuel had also created difficulties in the communal feeding of about 17,500 on poor relief. Food had had to be balanced against fodder, and the latter was reserved largely for horses. Many goats were slaughtered, reducing the milk supply, but providing meat. This was extremely tough until it was minced. All the difficulties he mentioned had been overcome, he said. Lord Gort revealed that German and Italian prisoners at Malta had been segregated, as they fought so bitterly. . . British infantry in Malta, he said, had guarded the coast and airfields, serviced ’ aircraft, and unloaded convoys. On one occasion, with cranes, they unloaded 29,000 tons of cargo within 54 hours of a convoy’s arrival. Some of the infantry had not seen their families for eight years.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 April 1943, Page 2
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