FACING FAMINE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21697, 26 April 1945, Page 5

FACING FAMINE

GERMANS IN THE RUHR

VAST ALLIED PROBLEMS REICH ADMINISTRATION LONDON, April 23. More than 4,000,000 German workers in the Ruhr face starvation next winter. This is one of the hundreds of problems facing the administration of the Allied Military Government teams who are now setting to work to put Germany’s social and industrial house in working order, says a corresponient at Field Marshal Montgomery’s leadquarters. Major-General Templar, director of the Military Government of the 21st Army Group, said that one of the chief worries was the comparatively small staff available in Germany owing to the great numbers left behind ) the liberated countries, but these ■re now gradually being freed for iuties in the occupied Reich. The Military Government spearheads, as in the liberated countries, go •ight into the occupied Reich towns and villages with the advanced troops. One detachment went into Osnabruck on the heels of the Commandos. They had no casualties but found serious large-scale trouble breaking out among the Germans and displaced oersons of other nationalities. The Military Government officers used fire arms to quell the disturbance and confined the entire population to their houses for ?4 hours which put an end rn the trouble.