EUROPE’S RATIONS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4378, 15 January 1941, Page 5

EUROPE’S RATIONS

POSITION PRIOR TO WINTER. RATIONING FOODSTUFFS. (Official News Service.) Indications of the true position of food supplies in Europe are given from time to time by official ration announcements. Marked changes have occurred. German rations have increased in some lines, while in countries occupied by the Nazis, reductions have been enforced, evidence of the “looting” through which the “pure Ayran” has fed himself at the expense of peoples he regards as his racial inferiors.

Ration information from Europe, corrected up to the end of October, shows the following maximum quantities for one person for a week (though it does not follow that people can obtain them): — Germany: Bread 80 oz., meat 17£ oz., sugar 8 oz., fats 9B oz., coffee 31 oz. (substitute). German Protectorate: Bread 44 oz., meat 8 oz., sugar 101 oz., fats 52 oz., coffee 31 oz. (substitute). Italy: Sugar 41 oz., fats (butter, olive oil or lard) 7 oz., coffee, only in hospitals and the army. Poland: Bread 62 oz., meat 9 oz., sugar 51 oz., fats (butter) 21 oz. France: Bread 87 oz., meat 123 oz., sugar 41 oz., fats (margarine or vegetable oil) 31 oz., coffee 3 oz. (mixture). Belgium: Bread 58 oz., sugar 71 oz.. fats 13J oz., coffee 3 oz. Denmark: Bread 171 oz. white and 521 oz. rye, sugar 13 oz., fats 4 oz. (margarine), coffee 1 oz. Netherlands: Bread 71 oz., white or 89 oz. rye, meat 171 oz., sugar 9 oz.. fats 9 oz., coffee 12 oz. For comparison the case of Switzerland is cited. Bread, meat and coffee are not subjected to ration, but each person is allowed 171 oz. of sugar and 9 oz., of edible fat or oil in each week. German policy is governed by two major considerations:— (a) To avoid shocking too brusquely, by the sudden lowering of standards of living, people brought under Nazi “protection”; (b) Influence of the blockade and of transport problems in Europe.