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Show Italian Diet Poor, Nazi's Found Best British Report Reich Still Gets Lion's Share. LONDON. Germany is still taking tak-ing the lion's share of European food supplies, while her Italian allies are . getting little more to eat than the people of the occupied countries, and In some instances less, the British ministry of economic warfare reported. re-ported. The ministry's parliamentary secretary, sec-retary, Dingle M. Foot, in response to a written question in parliament, Issued detailed figures showing how tightly Europeans had been forced to draw their belts as a result of the Allied blockade. His report disclosed that milk was one essential on the unobtainable list for adults in Germany, but that reasonably adequate supplies of other oth-er staple foods, such as meat, bread and potatoes, were available in the Reich. In the Netherlands, Denmark, Slovakia, Slo-vakia, France, Hungary and Bulgaria, Bul-garia, he said, short rations usually could be obtained by the people. But in Finland, Jugoslavia and some sections of Italy the established estab-lished food ration was not always available. In the Polish ghettos Jews were living on a starvation diet, Mr. Foot said. In Germany, normal consumers are allowed 80 ounces of bread weekly. week-ly. The average meat ration is IVi ounces permitted workers. Fat rations range from 7 ounces weekly for the normal consumer to 20 ounces for heavy workers. In Italy, normal consumers get 37 ounces of bread weekly less than half the German ration and heavy workers are allowed 110 ounces. Their meat ration is between five and seven ounces and they are permitted per-mitted only 3 ounces of fats. a |