Evening star., 1942-02-27
Occupied Areas Face
Starvation, Says
Inter-AIIied Group
SOC, 900 in Greece Alone
Doomed This Winter,
Committee Asserts
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 27.-Famine and
starvation are facing the occupied
countries of Europe, which are being
Systematically pillaged by the Nazis
to provide food for. the German
people and their armies, the Inter-
Allied Information Comittee de-
ciared today.
While hundreds of thousands in
conquered lands are undergoing un-
told .hardships, the Germans them
selves are so well-fed, the committee
said, that in some countries they
are the principal suppliers of black
markets-the illegal food centers
where fantastic prices are charged
for staples which only few can buy.
Ironically, dispatches from Swift
zerland reported the Germans were
taking increasingly drastic measures
to stamp out illicit trading in food
and clothing Five persons were said
to have been executed in Germany
or German occupied territory dur
ing the last week for such offenses,
and heavy fines and imprisonment
We're being meted out to others.
Starvation in Greece.
The Inter-Allied Committee. which
represents every Allied nation in
London, said the German pillaging
program, "masquerading as pur-
chase" probably would bring starva-
ton to 100000 in Greece alone be-
fore winter ended.
"One whole generation appears
to be already doomed" in Greece,
said the committees 6,500-Word re-
port.
In France, whence "every day
trains loaded with food 60 to Ger
many" the report added, "the whole
race is in danger"
Three sources were cited by the
committee as the basis of its state
ments: German official pronounce
ments, articles in the German-con-
trolled press and evidence obtained
from persons escaped from occupied
territories.
In some cases the German people
and their armies are living better
than in pre-war days, the report
said.
Official rations," available in the
orv to all occupied nations, were
reported "at their worst" in Greece
and most nearly adequate in
Czecho- -Slovakia, where many OF
Germany's most vital war industries
are located"
Conditions in other occupied ma
tions covered by the report in
cluded:
Belgium-Food situation simply
terrifying" with more than half the
school children in towns going with
out breakfast.
Boil Bark Of Trees.
Poland-Essentially self-support-
ing and agricultural country" its
rural residents have been reduced
to boiling down the bark Of trees
and the skins of dead animals"
The Netherlands-"T is Sc
rious deterioration in the food stu
alton"
Norway German airmen and
many German eXpectant mothers
eat in well-stocked German restau-
rants. buuy at special German coun-
ters in Oslo stores. 'Norwegians are
served at other counters, which are
mostly empty"
Imitation in its worst
form flourishes, with Germans
reouisitioning all foodstuffs they can
lay their hands on. paying off in
occupation marks which are worth
less to Serb farmers.
Noting that ill health, disease
and death from starvation" are
rampant in the German-dominated
countries, the report asks:
rs it any wonder that in one
place dog meat costs shillings
(s160) per pound and cats are 20
shillings tS4) and up each, when
ever such 1uxuries' are available?"
The Greek government in London
said deaths from starvation through
out Greece now averaged 900 day.