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Show T British Airmen Honor Foes Who Died In Battle " r -y s m-i"" - aSSTW""'wS. w t mmn i-aaa as. -J .2?- n - - - -A .jaa: turn ijT.'vA.-ft.. .jt NAZI FLIERS SHOT DOWN IN RAID ON FIRTH OF FORTH ARE LAID TO REST Royal air fore members form guard of honor as coffins, covered with swastika ensigns, move through Edinburgh streets Germany Can't Be Starved By Blockade, Nazis Claim BERLIN, Nov. 2 (UP) Next to war, the Germans these days talk moat about food and the lack of food. It was the lack of food, nazls say, which cost Germany the victory vic-tory In 1918. Now propaganda leaders have proclaimed war on "tAe Inner front," a drive to prevent pre-vent the fatal collapse of morale such as occurred 21 years ago. The German government ordered food rationing even before hostilities hostil-ities started, and UncensoredrJm'hoeA r.,.., fected under vjermany. which the popu- TOUrrn eating Indeflnlte-Ar;-U ly at the present Article rate with prospects pros-pects of dietary Improvement, as Poland is exploited and supplies roll In from Russia and the Balkans. Bal-kans. Nazis say "Germany cannot be starved out." Neutral experts agree that If the present ration card standard can be maintained It will be adequate. No one will starve on the present rations. It Is, however, believed that as vegetables and fruits grow scarcer during the winter, Germans Ger-mans will feel a vitamin pinch. Poland Will Help ' space dance halls, gymnasiums and the like already is packed with the relch's reserve of 4,500,-000 4,500,-000 tons of bread grains. With present reserves, on the basis of present total annual consumption con-sumption of 28,000,000 tons of grain, nazis say that as far as grain is concerned, Germany could survive sur-vive two or three years of poor harvests without any imports. Reserves Stored Enormous reserves of meat, potatoes, po-tatoes, canned goods and other foodstuffs also have been piled up. But It Is not the calory and protein adequacy of their diet or the tons of reserves that women talk about In queues at the markets. mar-kets. They discuss the fact that since the war there Is no real coffee, practically no chocolate or cocoa and no tea to be had, and that you can buy only one egg a week for each member of the family. fam-ily. " : The official ration cards provide the following weekly amounts of necessities which are almost doubled dou-bled for persons doing heavy labor: la-bor: Meat and sausage, 1 pound Jt ounces; bread, 9 pounds 4.8 ounces; fats, 9.4 ounces, with butter limited lim-ited to 3.9 ounces and cheese to 2.2 ounces; marmalade, 3.2 ounces; sugar, 8 ounces; and certain starchy foods, such as rice, oatmeal and noodles, 4 ounces. Other foods. Including vegetables vegeta-bles and potatoes, are "free," that is to say, not rationed. The rationing system also extends ex-tends to soap and clothing. Next: Naat propaganda and how It works. Responsible German agricultural authorities believe that by intensive inten-sive cultivation German Poland can double the surplus available to the reich and produce enough to feed 7,000,000 Germans. Moreover, some 2.000,000 Poles, It Is estimated, estimat-ed, will be available to replace Germans In the army of labor on German farms. The arrangement with Russia to Import 1.000,000 tons of feed and grain will enable Germany to raise 1,900.000 hogs In addition to the more than 23,500,000 she now has, It was added. The Russian grain will be distributed as soon as it arrives ar-rives because all available storage |