Poland Worst Off For Food

Northern Advocate, 1 April 1946, Page 5

Poland Worst Off For Food

(Rec. 10 a.m.) WARSAW, Mar. 31 Mr. Herbert Hoover declared that the food situation in Poland was the worst his mission had so far encountered.

A great effort was needed to prevent famine.

Mr. Hoover is now studying food conditions in Finland. The Russian-licensed Berlin newspaper Deutche Volkszeitung reports that sufficient food is available in the Russian zone to ensure that there will be no shortages before the new crops are gathered. This is the result of “a triumph of organisation.”

Praising tile help the Russians have given the Germans, the newspaper instances the recent distribution by the Red Army of 40.000 tons of seed potatoes in the Brandenburg district, thus saving a cut in rations.

The United States Army destroyed thousands of tons of American food at Calcutta in preference to shipping it back to America, says a Calcutta message. JAPANESE NEEDS A member of the Combined Food Board Mission sent to Japan to investigate Japanese needs, said food requests to General MacArthur and the American zone in Germany could not possibly be met. but Japan could manage with less food than General MacArthur requested. He said the mission believed that Japan and Korea at present had enough food, but deficits would appear in Tokio. Yokohama and Osaka, by May. and then spread.