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Widespread Shortage (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Jan. 28. The plundering of Europe by the German occupiers has produced one result of peculiar significance—those products for which the countries are noted are precisely the products of which they are most short to-day. France is a land of winegrowers, yet wine there is rationed to two litres a week. Germany meanwhile is taking five million hectolitres yearly—because Germany needs alcohol for blending with motor spirit. An economic expert, giving this example, added several more. Italy is famous for olives and macaroni. Both are now strictly rationed there because Germany needs them. Rumania is a wheat and oil producing country, yet Rumania has two breadless days a week and no private motoring is allowed. The Nazis need both wheat and oil which is transported to Germany in vast quantities. Czechoslovakia has huge boot factories, but shoes there, when obtainable, are wooden soled—because Germany is short of leather and the German army must be shod.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22184, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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163WANTED PRODUCTS Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22184, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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