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BRITAIN TO GERMANY DIVERSION OF FLOUR INFLUX OF REFUGEES LONDON, March 3. Radioed orders received in midAtlantic diverted 10,000 tons of flour from Britain to Hamburg, says the Daily Mail. The ship, carrying flour, called at Plymouth during the weekend before going on to Hamburg and landed her passengers who said that the diversion orders came -.s a com plete surprise to the captain. The Daily Telegraph's conespondent in Berlin says the food situation in the British zone is made more difficult by the daily inpouring of 5000 refugees from Polish areas under tre arrangement for the ransfar ot pi pmation. The situation in the American zone is better, but the deputy militai”’ governor. Lieutenant-General Lucius Clay, said he favoured a pooling scheme for all zones, although he was at present continuing to issue rations m the prevailing scale.
A Russian Army newspaper in Beilin says that the rations were not fully met in the Russian zone in Germany
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21962, 5 March 1946, Page 3
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