Evening star., 1943-08-11
French Anger Seen.
Rising as Germans
Grab Food Supply
Ry The Associated Press.

BERN-The French masses. visit
ed with terrible and constant hunger
while their Nazi conquerors feed
on their crops, are building up an
anger which will explode with devas-
tating effect at the first Allied in
Vasion landing, says dispatch from
France to the BaSler Nachrichten.
The situation. the paper said, has
reached point which may prove
catastrophe for France unless soon
relieved.
The specter of inability TO bridge
the gap until the new crop is har-
vested hangs over the country. ag-
gravated by the fact that 100000
peaSa il prisoners are still in Ger
many and hundreds of thousands
of youths are enrolled in Nazi forced
labor ranks. But the existing food
shortage, said the Nachrichten,
without question is due to fees and
requiSitions of the Germans"
Bread Riots Reported.
Bread riots have occurred in vari-
Gus cities, among them Grenoble
and Gex. More recently a throng
of maddened housewives in Vichy
assailed the Pare Hotel-Marshal
Petain's quarters-after a 15-day
absence of fruit and vegetables from
the city's markets. They shouted
that they wanted to tell the Mar
shal what we think about it," A
doubled police guard forcibly dis
lnI .o LoL
hotel cellars, whose stocks they had
threatened to pillage, but not until
the housewives succeeded in grab
bing an arrival of vegetables Sched-
uled for later sale The housewives
feared they would find their way
to restaurants and the black mar
kets as they did in the past, and not
to the public marts.
Throughout France hunger is in
creasing Children whose faces are
pinched and legs spindly are falling
easy victims of disease while their
parents mutter helplessly.
In Vichy, Lyons and other metro
politan sectors, said the report from
France to the Nachrichten, one al
ways sees the same pitiful lines
standing in front of shops in the
gray dawn hours" Almost daily the
signs mo fruit" and mo vegetables
are posted in shop windows, the
report said
Germans "Stuff Themselves"
The people are aware that German
functionaries and the privileged few
stuff themselves" while the humble
people and their children are de-
prived of everything and are only
able to murmur.
Propaganda against Russia, the
dispatch said, has boomeranged, the
people simply considering it an ex-
preston of benefit to Germany. New
measures to recruit labor in Ger
many are doomed to more serious
failures than the first attempt.
Scarcely a fourth called responded,
and the authorities, helpless, face
thousands of recalcitrants.
Lyons markets which normally re-
ceived 400 tons of fruits and vege-
tables daily for it's half million pop
ulation now get no more than So
OF $50 tons of vegetables shipped
from the Bourg region, only 10 reach
Lyons. OF meat, the dispatch said,
better not talk" The people of
Lyons get 80 grams once every Is
days-the situation is the same in
all cities and villages in Haute
Savoie province.
Bread, meat. milk, butter, fruit,
wine and liquors were taken in ad-
vance by Nazis in such proportions,
said the report, that feeding the
native population was impossible.
AS result the French are bitter
toward Nazi inflated" functionaries
who get three and four times the
normal rations," exhausting the
country's substance.
Disease Mounting.
The people of Lyons have not had
salad this year. A bit of lettuce
costs so to so francs. Every day
5000 to 1000 men and women of
Lyons mount bicycles and pedal 25
to so kilometers on a usually futile
hunt for cabbaees, turnips and
spinach.
At Villeurbanne. housewives in
workers quarters stand silently from
am. until II am. daily to get a
half pound of ersatz national choc-
olate," badly needed by their chill