Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 1 | Food Supply to Occupied France is Now Assured

Food Supply to 10 Occupied France FranceIs Is Now Assured By Associated Press WASHINGTON l a May 22 Pres Pres President ident Wilson lIson toda today toda approved ed ar arrangements ar- ar which will wilt r remove mo tho the menace of oC starvation which tho the Inhabitants Inhabitants Inhabitants' In German German- e an occupied j led Belgium 3 and d France e have lr n c rd 1 t l Herbert C. C Ho Hoover r r as s s chairman of or the tho commission for tor relief relie in Belgium Bel Eel glum gium ium announced tonight hl that the president had approved the restorIng restoring restoring ing of or the fleet of steamers employed em em- by the commission to the original number and tho placing at atthe atthe atthe the commissions commission's disposal sufficient suf sur- tonna tonnage e for the dispatch of tons of foodstuffs in the tIre next ninety dass days das As s a result of the diversion or of ofa ofa a lar large e part of or the shipping em employed employed em- em by the thc commission to other war ar purposes said Mr Ir Hoover er it it had been necessary to reduce the bread ration to six ounces per diem this being an ounce below the present German ration with corresponding reductions in other foodstuffs foodstuff Even with this additional shipping ship ship- ping pine the Belgian Ian ration must be beof beof beor of or the lie most mea meager er character but butI I am confident that actual starvation starvation starvation tion on a a. wholesale scale has again been prevented I I