Divert Wheat To Germany

Northern Advocate, 4 March 1946, Page 5

Divert Wheat To Germany

i Rec. 2 p.m. i LONDON. March 3. Orders received in mid-Atlantic diverted 10,000 tons of flour from Britain to Hamburg, says the ‘"Daily Mail.”

The- ship carrying the flour called at Plymouth during the week-end before going on to Hamburg and landed passengers who said the diversion orders came as a complete surprise to the captain.

The “Daily Telegraph's” Berlin correspondent says the food situation in the British zone is made more difficult: by the daily pouring in of 5000 refugees from Polish areas under the arrangement to transfer the population.

The situation in the American zone is better but the dcputy-Military

Governor (Lieut.-General Clay) said he favoured a pooling scheme for all zones. At present he is continuing the issue of rations on the prevailing scale. The Russian Army newspaper in Berlin says the ration scale was not fully met in the Russian zone in February. INDIAN CRISIS The Indian Government has given an austerity lead in the food crisis, ordering the famous Delhi lawns to be ploughed up and vegetables sown, says the “Daily Mail’s” New Delhi correspondent. Lord Wavell is ordering the ploughing of part of the Vice-Regal estates. British troops from March 10 are forbidden to send food parcels to Britain.

Failure of the rains has increased fear of famine. Three million tons of wheat, peas, and barley were scorched on the North-Western Plains during February. The Government Food Secretary stated that India needs C. 000.000 tons more grain than the country is likely to produce. The full effect of the food shortage will not be felt until May. but distress is already in evidence in some district"; of Bombay province. Mysore and Madras.