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Food By Force
In Bszonia?
Australian Associated Press
DUSSELDORF, Thursday. — 1
Hans Boeckler. chairman of
the Trades Union Federation
in t|ie British Zone, told a
meeting ol lood officials from
.the Anglo-American zone tlial
tho British authorities should;
collect food by force if nec.es- 1
Isarv from the German country
side.
Otherwise, lie said, mobs!
would soon storm the bakeries
and loot the farms, where food
was hidden. I
Mi' G. Hughes, head of the
Food and Agriculture section of
the British Control Commis-!
sion. said there was plenty of-
imeat in the Bizonal nreas tol
fulfil the meat ration if the1
-Germans made collections pro--
perly. No special Anglo-!
American help could be ex-i
peeled during the next critical
! period. I
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