THREAT OF FAMINE
PARIS SHORT OF FOOD LONDON, June’ 13. Paris is threatened with its greatest famine, according to reports received at General de Gaulle’s headquarters in Algiers. Normandy was the main source of meat, butter, milk, and vegetables for Paris. The threat ot famine has been increased by the Germans blocking all roads leading into the .city. Peasants driving food carts towards Paris are stopped and the food seized. Paris, it is believed, has food reserves sufficient only for seven days. The reports add that 1,000,000 ablebodied Paris citizens are to be rounded up and sent to Germany at the rate ot 10,000 a day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25562, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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