EUROPE’S RATIONS

Grey River Argus, 17 January 1941, Page 6

EUROPE’S RATIONS

POSITION PRIOR TO WINTER. Indications of the true position of food supplies in Europe are given from time to time by' ollicial ration announcements. Marked changes have occurred. German rations have increased in some lines, while in countries occupied by the Nazis, reductions have been enforced, evidence of the “looting” through which the “pure Aryan” has fed himself at the expense of peoples he regards as his racial inferiors. Ration information from Europe, corrected up to the end of October, shows the following maximum quantities for one person for a week (though it does not follow that people can obtain them): — Germany: Bread 80 oz., meat oz., sugar 8 oz. fats 91 oz., coffee 3j oz. (substitute).’ German Protectorate: Bread 44 oz.. meat 8 oz., sugar 101 oz., fats 51 oz.. coffee 3i oz. (substitute). Italy: Sugar 41 oz., fats (butter, olive oil or lard) 7 oz., coffee, only in hospitals and the army. Poland: Bread 62 oz., meat 9 oz., sugar 51 oz., fats (butter) 2’ oz. France: Bread 87 oz., meat 121 pz.. sugar 41 oz., fats (margarine oi vegetable oil) 31 oz., coffee 3 oz. (mixture).

Belgium: Bread 58 oz., sugar 71 oz.. fats 131 oz., coffee 3 oz. Denmark: Bread 171 oz. white and 521 oz. rye, sugar 13 oz., fats 4 oz. (margarine), coffee 1 oz. Netherlands: Bread 71 oz. white or

89 oz. rye, meat 171 oz., sugar 9 oz., fats 9 oz., coffee, II oz. For comparison the case of Switzerland is cited. Bread, meat and coffee are not subject to ration, but each person is allowed 171 oz. of sugar and 9 oz. of edible fat or oil in each week. German policy is governed by two major considerations: (a) To avoid shocking too brusquely by the sudden lowering of standards of living, people brought under Nazi “protection”; (b) Influence of the blockade ami of transport problems in Europe.