SHORTAGE OF FOOD
POSITION IN FRANCE LONDON .August 9. A woman who lias just returned to Britain from the south of France said that before the French Government collapsed the food situation in France was good but immediately after the armistice everything seemed to disappear overnight. “.Bread in France is very dark in colour and rigidly rationed,” she said. “It must not be sold before it is 24 hours old. The meat ration is awfulonly 50 grammes each Saturday—if you are lucky. That usually includes bone. There is no butter, cheese, bacon or ham. “Vegetables are scarce and expensive and fresh fish is rare. Now one has to be registered for horse meat.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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113SHORTAGE OF FOOD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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