WORST FOR YEARS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVI, Issue 23012, 2 October 1944, Page 5

WORST FOR YEARS

Germany’s Potato Harvest LONDON, September 29. Germany’s potato harvest is the worst for many years, including last year’s, which is officially described as millions of tons below 1942, states the Stockholm correspondent of “The Times.” The German Deputy Minister of Food (Relcke) stated that there were food difficulties ahead, though the position was far from catastrophic as in 1913. Reicke added that the recent bread restrictions and the rationing of other ,‘very-day commodities would not easily be borne. A campaign has been opened for gathering fruits in the forest, includmg wild berries, roots and mushrooms, largely with the help of children. The grain harvest is described as average. The Germans, with good train harvests last year and imports from the Ukraine, have been able to eke out the diminished potato harvest, but this will be impossible in the coming winter. An appeal bv the German Food Minister, Herr Herbert Backe, for an ntehsiflcatlon of efforts by German farmers was broadcast by the German Backe said: “There is no doubt Hint German peasantry in the coming months will find it harder than ever to fulfil the tasks imposed upon them. Germany now has once again to rely ’Xcltiervely on her own resources and further enormous exertions will be expected." ,