British experts cited a number of salient factors in the continental food situation during the coming winter to support the view that while the position is by no means normal, nevertheless. it does not approach the serious general famine, such as the Russian famine at the end of the last war, which has been envisaged in some quarters.
Poland is the worst placed of all because of the fact that the German invasion occurred just as the crops were about to be harvested. The manner of the German occupation and the widespread dispersal of the population, coupled with the severe winter, probably will produce famine conditions in Poland.
Elsewhere, according to reliable information, the fighting attending the German invasion did not cause damage to crops as serious as might be supposed, because the advance was so swift. Moreover, fighting was confined largely to towns, roads, and bridgeheads, in contrast with the trench warfare of 1914.—United Press.
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