FOOD OUTLOOK IN EUROPE

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23260, 23 July 1945, Page 6

FOOD OUTLOOK IN EUROPE

Urgent Appeal ißec. 6.30 p.m.i LONDON. July 21. The chief of the UNRRA mission in Yugoslavia, M. Mihail Sergejchk. who is a Russian. appealing to producer nations for a vast increase in the amount of food for liberated Europe, said thousands of Yugoslavs would die this winter unless more food was sent. The people of Yugoslavia knew it was already too late to save all. and their only concern now was to make the deathroll as small as possible. "If citizens of America, Canada, LatinAmerica. South Africa, Australia and New Zealand could see the plight of Europe they would not rest quietly until they secured from their Governments a curtailment of their own consumption so that fewer people would starve in Europe this winter.” M. Sergejchk said that promises made by the military liaison officers had been broken and UNRRA allocations scaled down. Shipping Available 111.28 p.m.i MELBOURNE. July 22. Mr Bankes Amery, leader of t.re British Food Mission, in a speech today. said: "Now we have passed the stage when the shortage of foodstuffs is greater than the shortage of ships. Britain will accordingly ship all food, meat and dairy produce countries like Australia and New Zealand can supply.” U.S. Joins Food Organisation (11 p.m.i WASHINGTON. July 22. The Senate approved United States membership of the United Nations food and agriculture organisation, thus completing the third and last of the international mechanisms designed to support the San Francisco Charter.