FOOD FOR GERMANS

Grey River Argus, 19 November 1946, Page 5

FOOD FOR GERMANS

In British Zone EXCHANGED BY RUSSIANS FOR STEEL (Rec. 8.20). LONDON, Nov. 18. The Russians, in a sudden change of their policy, have now begun pouring food into the British zone in Germany, says the Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent. Grain and potatoes are coming in through German Baltic ports. The food is in exchange for cteel which is being sent to the Russian zone by rail. Under an agreemnt which is now being implemented, the have agreed to supply one hundred thousand tons of food for the British zone.-

The Mayor of Berlin, Josef Orlopp, declared that that city’s bread supply is secure until the beginning of February. He added that 234,000 tons of potatoes for the winter had arrived from the Russian zone and from Czechoslovakia.

Coal exports from the Ruhr may stop as a result of appeals by the Mayors of the larger towns in the British and American zones to the Allied authorities.

Food Outlook

LONDON, Nov. 17.

It was totally untrue that there would be a world abundance of wheat, said the British Minister of Food (Mr. John Strachey). There was undoubtedly a great deal in America, but there was still a serious gap between the world requirements and the total world supplies. Britain would buy every ton of wheat the American Government was willing to sell her up to her full reauirements.

He was asked: Will Dr. Dalton find the dollars to buy all the wheat? He replied: Certainly, he has never hesitated!

Transport difficulties in Canada and the United States were holding up deliveries. Britain had ships waiting for weeks for cargoes in St. Lawrence, he concluded. In answer to a further question he said he could see no immediate prospect of ending the bread rationing.