RATIONING IN GERMANY
FURTHER CUTS PROBABLE PROSPECT OF VEGETABLE DIET (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 22. The prospects of a possible total cut in the meat ration and other essential food items was mentioned! by the German agricultural commissioner, Herr Sturz, broadcasting in the home service- programme. “All our plans are wrecked, and everybody is asking. ‘ Shall we succeed in bridging the gap until the next crop comes in? ’ Some decrees have already been issued which cut deeply into everybody's rations. More measures will follow. We shall, however, have to turn to a vegetable diet, and push meat more and more into the background.’’ Herr Sturz added that potatoes would henceforth form the basis of the national diet. Most of the German stock and poultry would be compulsorily slaughtered in order to save grain and animal feeding'stuffs. Wholesale dislocation of the transport system compelled the authorities to divide Germany into self-supporting districts, for which reasons no additional supplies of agricultural products from elsewhere would be available.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25801, 23 March 1945, Page 5
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