1940-06-20 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 20, 1940

FAMINE HORRORS IN FEW MONTHS

London, To-day. WITHIN FOUR MONTHS, Germany is likely to bring the horrors of famine to her own people and to the peoples of the countries she has invaded, an authoritative Lon- don statement said yesterday.

Harvest prospects in Europe are "bad to moderate." Food shortage has followed in each country Germany has invaded, the Germans seizing all available supplies of food for their war machine.

The Allies did not expect any alarming crisis in Germany this year, but the hard winter and the prospec- tive poor harvest would seem to bring it sooner than was thought possible.

Germany, which imports most of her food and feeding stuffs, is ex-

MILITARY

SERVICE IN

pected to face a food shortage this COLONIES

winter. The German potato crop is failing because of attacks by Colorado beetle.

the

Denmark's pig industry is almost wiped out and at least one-third of her cattle is to be slaughtered this

summer.

The situation is critical in Norway and Belgium.

Italy's Position

Italy has always been a heavy im- porter of food and for 10 years now she has been steadily lowering her

standard of living.

be directed

In a few months, appeals for food for the starving public will probably America. These can well be part of a Nazi plan to get food on humani tarian grounds and use it for keeping the war machine going.

to North and South

Even if France capitulates, the Allied blockade will prevent Ger- many from adding to needed sources of supply. Reuter.

Evidence that Germany appreciates the gravity of the situation is already forthcoming in appeal made from oc- cupied countries for food help from overseas neutrals. Economic experts forecast that Germany will encourage propaganda in this direction and that appeals on humanitarian grounds will in due course be addressed in parti- cular to American countries,

London, To-day.

The Under-Secretary of the Colonies made a statement in the Commons yesterday on legislation providing for com- pulsory military service in the colonies.

Such

EX-ROYALTY CROSS INTO SPAIN

Madrid, To-day.

Among those, who crossed the French frontier into 8pain at Irun yesterday on the way to Portugal were ex-Empress Zita of

ADEQUATE

FOOD

STOCKS

London, To-day.

An assurance that stocks of food in this country were ade- Austria and her son, Prince Otto, quate and that the supply of

the Grand Duchess of Luxem«. bourg,. Princo Francisco) of Bour: bon-Parma and Princesses' Mária and Isabel, and the Dowager Duchess Marla Antonia of Bour- bon-Parma-Router.

essential foodstuffs was en- sured for weeks and weeks, even if nothing entered the country, was given by Lord Woolton, the Food Minister, in his maiden speech in the

TO SUPPORT House of Lords yesterday.

BRITAIN TO THE END

Wellington, To-day.

The people of New Zealand will support Britain to the very end, Mr. Fraser said yes- terday. They believe that with the immense resources of the Empire victory can be finally achieved.

legislation, he said, existed in the Solomon Islands, Ceylon, the Falkland Islands, Fiji, the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Hong Kong, Kenya, and so forth, and proposals were now people are determined to continue the Uganda, Malaya, Northern Rhodesia He told Parliament that the British under consideration for similar legis- fight not only because it is the right lation in four West African colonies.

It had not so far been found neces- sary to introduce legislation of this kind in other portions of the Co- lonial Empire.

Answering Dr. L. Haden Guest

(Labour), who asked whether this

applied to the Protectorates (he men-. tectorate), the Under-Secretary said tioned part of Nigeria was a pro- he would look into that matter.-Reu-

ter.

thing to do but also because they are confident they can succeed. New Zealand joined with the other mem- bers of the Commonwealth in pledging herself to that end.

The battle about to begin was one which the British people were proud to fight, Mr. Fraser said, and New herself with them in this grave and Zealand was still prouder to associate

fateful hour.

"All I can say now is that the peo- ple of New Zealand will not fail," he concluded.--Reuter.

MORE EVACUATIONS

London, To-day.

REFUGEES REACH

SWITZERLAND V

Montreux, To-day. With this prospect in view and the

Many French refugees, including It is announced that a further 3,000 likelihood that Germany will endeav-women, children and old men, have children from east and south-east our to saddle the British blockade arrived in Switzerland in the past two coast towns will be evacuated next with the responsibility, it is important days, as well as several hundredweek to safer areas in the Midlands, to recall that prior to the blitzkrieg French troops who were disarmed and Monmouthshire and there was no interference with the interned. Reuter. import to neutral countries of ade-

quate normal food supplies..

Will Suffer First

Under present conditions these countries are likely to suffer first and most seriously.

Indeed no crisis of an alarming char- acter is be expected in Germany it- self this year although the eventual breakdown of its food supplies is now thought to be much nearer than ori- ginally expected.

The position in the occupied coun- tries is already acute. In Belgium it is described as desperate and genuine famine conditions are likely to appear within two months. There is a sharp food shortage locally in Norway es- pecially in towns,

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Nazi Robbery ·

The problem is rendered more dif- ficult by the robbery of food stocks to supply Germany's home needs, for in the occupied countries there is nor- mally not enough to go round without overseas imports.

A further consideration musf : be taken into account. Even if Germany. is willing to allow the dominated 'peoples to starve, the problems of pes- tilence and despairing revolt still ra- main..

Italy is unable help as her needs are as acute as Germany's and conditions in Italy have deteriorated in the last ten years to the point where ration -standards are now lower than Ger-

many's ownBritish Wireless.

Mn. Gardiner, of No. 103, Austin Road,has reported that clothing (valued at $100, which was hanging on the roof of his residence, was stolen yesterday afternoon,

OFF THE RECORD

Reuter.

TOILET GOODS

SILKS

EDREED 11-

Glamorgan.

By ED REED.

"You'll find ladies' walsts between neokwear and hosiery, Sir,"

Here's Luck

EWO BEER

Tel 30811-

He said iron rations for use in a great emergency were disposed in secret places up and down the coun- try and all round large centres of population other rations had been prepared for use in the event of a rush evacuation.

Lord Woolton mentioned that the Food Ministry had a turnover of £600,000,000 a year. The staff of 23,000 included many heads of businesses who had accepted. com- paratively minor positions for war work. The Ministry had 17 main divisions and 1,500 sub-divisions. Food manufacturers in Great Bri- tain were prepared to produce foods without any profit for. some portion of their production

if these could be distributed to the poorest section of the community without undue charges.--Reuter.

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