FRANCE’S NEW PROSPECT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 227, 24 August 1945, Page 5

FRANCE’S NEW PROSPECT

BETTER FOOD OUTLOOK. PARIS, Aug. 23. Many hundreds of thousands of French people who had expected to suffer acutely from lack of food in the winter months are now assured of a reasonable amount of nourishment. Ihe Food Minister (M. Pineau), after visiting Britain and America, announced that under the Anglo-French agreement signed in Washington France will buy a minimum of 10 per cent, of the British-Argentine meat contract.^ Britain agreed to advance France 50,000 tons of sugar, which France will return from sugar from the trench West Indies. France is also importing from the United States and Canada 350,000 tons of wheat a month, of which 200,000 tons are going to French North Africa. The Combined Food Board in Washington allocated France 200,000 tons of fats for the second half of this year. France is also importing 60,000 tons of meat, both tinned and carcases,- by the end of the year, and 1,000,000 tons of- agricultural machinery, chemical manure and insecticides a month, principally from America. M. Pineau promised that the people would receive an average calories a day by October. France will receive as much imports ns shc_ can handle with her present port facilities. The Dutch Minister of Agriculture announced a 50 per cent, cut in the I Dutch meat ration from September 2 to three ounces a week.