NO FOOD SHORTAGE
SUPPLIES IN BRITAIN ROME REPORTS DENIED (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, April 14. Currency has been given in the Italian press to a report that owing to the German invasion of Norway and the occupation of Denmark there is a grave shortage of food in Britain. It was added that it had become necessary immediately to ration butter, eggs and margarine. The facts are that the butter ration was increased about a fortnight ago to eight ounces weekly a person and, as already announced, it was officially stated, immediately after Denmark was occupied, that there was no intention of reducing the ration. Margarine is not rationed and there is no intention of rationing it. Eggs, which at present are cheaper than they have been for some time past, are not rationed and there is no intention to ration them. Since April 9 pork has been free of ration.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20223, 16 April 1940, Page 5
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153NO FOOD SHORTAGE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20223, 16 April 1940, Page 5
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