SHORT RATIONS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 210, 3 August 1940, Page 7

SHORT RATIONS

WARNING TO FRANCE. HARD WINTER AHEAD. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received August 3, 12.30 a.m. VICHY, Aug. 2. France will have to submit to short rations next winter, according to a serious warning issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, wbicli predicts additional meatless days and more extensive food restrictions.

The Ministry has also issued a warning that, severe rationing of milk and butter will be necessary because of the lack of fuel for transport. Measures are being taken to equip vehicles with charcoal-burning devices. Meat will be short because of the need to build up live .stock, of which Germans in the occupied area have taken over large numbers. The. position iu regard to edible oil is even more difficult, because all came from the colonies, from which transport is very difficult. Eighty per cent, of France’s sugar was imported from regions severely affected by the war. The new Minister of Agriculture (M. Caziot) said: “I advise those who can to remain in the country- during the winter instead of returning to the towns, where tile shortages will be greater. France is not facing famine, although the British blockade and the presence, of the German army, force us to adopt short rations.” Lc Temps declares that .the British blockade authorities have seized 260 tons of food consigned to France.