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Food Scarcity In Europe: Hitler's Trail Of Ruin
LONDON, JUNE 20 (BY AIR MAIL)-WHEN HITLER BEGAN HIS NEW 'CAMPAIGN of AGGRESSION THIS YEAR THERE WERE ADE- Ger- QUATE SUPPLIES OF FOODSTUFFS IN EUROPE, and in many, too, there would have been a sufficiency of breadstuff, and fats had she 'not chaven to divert so large a proportion of them to the feeding of her war machine,
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Then came the Blitzkrieg, and with it the whole economic structure of one country after another wag wantonly destroyed. Stocks were seized and removed, access to normal supplies cut off. and the whole system of production, including barrasting, was thrown into chaos. Today the callons infliction of these losses has the to be measured with the crushing liabilities they involve for Reich
Italians Pass Through
Consequent upon Italy's entry Into the European war, Italian diplomatic staffs in all parts of the British Empire naturally had to leave. Altogether 22 Italians mostly staff members and families of the Italian consulates in Aus- tralia passed through Hongkong yesterday morning on an N. Y. K. iner bound for Shanghal. It is learned none of the Italian pas sengers were permitted to disem- bark in Hongkong by the authori-
les.
Everywhere that Hitlar's bordes Reich, Nor can the Nazis look with
The Italian party aboard the N. confidence for breadstuffs y. K. liner consists of Mr. Amedec have passed food shortage has any
consi- from France. She is rapidly followed, and it is
normally Mammalella, Consal. General for
and now Italy. Brisbane, "Mr. dered in some quarters that in barely self-supporting, and four months his own country will her ravaged soli has to support Benedetto d'Acunzo, Consul Gen.
an army of occupation.
eral. Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. In short, the crops of few Euro-vanni Bors, Secretary of the Ita-
S.S. "PRESIDENT ADAMS"
S.S. "RESIDENT HARRISON"
July 28. Aug. 18
be facing famine.
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July 27
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Germany's positior. is now Army Dean countries have been unaffect van Consulate in Sydney. Mr. linked, to her detriment, with ed by either the ravages of war. and Mrs. Leonardo Chlem Vice- the hard winter, the spring foods, Consul, Bydney. Mr. and Mrs. has devastated, but which former. or the transfer to the Forces of Napoleoné Costantino and daugh
that of the countries which
she
ly were able to import their nor mal supplies from oversea.
farm labour. The Reich, in sadi.
Mr. ter. Vice-Consul, Brisbane, tion has suffered from shortage Mario Luccioli Consul Victoria of horses, fertilizers. stuffs, and oil for machinery. Her Rando. Acting Vice-Consul, Syd- much vaunted potato crop has
B. Vitali. Vice- Consul Sydney. Mr. Mellane G. in part been damaged by the Dey, Mr. Luigi игру the
feeding Sydney, Mr. and Mrs. Felica
it.
Was
As a direct consequence differs little from what it In March, 1918. Well may the quotation be recalled:
devil is come down unto you, having great wrath. because he
Enoweth that he hath but a short time.""
Colorado beetle, and
the ration
of this staple German food has Marco, Italian accountant, Sydney. Mr. and Mrs. AdamŊ Vigua and been cut to 31kg. weekly.
three children, Secretary of the Consul General Brisbane.
"CALLOUS METHODS Quite callously, Germans have DENMARKS LOST CATTLE
been removing stocks of whale oil, On balance Europe is dependent slaughtered poultry, and other on oversea sources for food for her provender, from centres that were With existing Inhabitants and fodder for the live-nearly starving. stock. Taking the countries overrun knowledge of the utter unscrupu-. and ravaged by the Nazi war ma-lousness of their methods, it may chine, Denmark is an outstanding be foreseen that.the Germans will example of how capture by Hitler not hesitate to starve the con has added to his abilities inquered lands and will stead of to his asseta.
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ASSOCIATION
Volume of Business Trankacted
One-third of her cattle will have
They will conveniently ignore China Providents been slaughtered before the sum- mer is over, and already her pis the fact that even in their industry has virtually been liquid-country the ated
own
on Monday, July 22, 1940. H.K. Banks attribute Cements the deprivations of the invaded China Lights (0) countries to the Alled blockade.
3 $1.180.00
200
14.35
387
8.50
100
8:55
500
3.80
260
3.80
200
18,20
50
18.20
100
18.15
100
18.15
M
100
18.15
500
3.70
500
3.70
22.25
200
15.50
225
21.00
3,915
The total value is $45,055.50.
war machine has Dairy Farmis
de- been fed consistently to the atriment of the ordinary worker Poland, which was formerly grower of substantial quantiles und the virtual extermination of of grain, potatoes, sugar beet, and the aged or weakly, fodder, and an exporter of veget able and animal foodstuffs, invaded during the autumn sow-issued on Wednesday appointed Mr. H.K. Telephones (0) 500 ing season, with resultant damage Meng Chu-ju, First Secretary to the HK. Tramways Chinese Embassy in the "Soviet Yaumati Ferries that can be imagined.
Union. replacing Mr. Chang Ta-tien
In
"" HK. Hotels was A National Government mandale
IN NORWAY Norway, three-quarters of who has been transferred to an whose grain supplies were always other post. tmported, the German authorities themselves admit the necessity for
providing extensive help in the OHINA NAVIGATION
way of food as well as clothes and furniture. in some districts the situation. 15 Critical, Feeding- stuffs are scarce, and livestock has had to be slaughtered. The már- garine mills are at a standštili :' the Ashing industry ruined...
Although
and both Belgium Holland produced and exported certain foodstuffs, they were de-
activities pendent for such the import of primary materials: Belgium's position is now regard. circum- ed as desperate unless stances alter she faces a famine in about two months, Holland must import feeding-stuffs and fertilizers, or she will lose of her herds" and crops.
on
more
NO HELP FROM ITALY Little or no help can be expect- ed from Italy. for as a whole she has the same deficiencies as' Ger- many. Her standard of living which has been falling for a decade, is lower than that of the
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