Vichy, Aug. 27.
The food situation in France is growing more and more serious with every day that brings the winter closer. The rations system is already in force, but this question of supplies for the people of France remains the main problem before the Government.
It is this problem that is behind the Government's constant efforts to improve the transportation system throughout the country. Railway lines and roads in all areas where they were damaged during the war, are being speedily repaired, to permit the functioning of an efficient, timesaving transport system.
But while the Government is doing the best it can with the supplies it has on hand or can expect from Europe itself, there still remains the capital problem of how to replace the supplies that France usually obtained from her colonies, and which the British blockade is now cutting off—
Havas. action," Mr. Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York, declared here last night.
The New York Mayor, one of the six American delegates to the Board, made his statement after the group's initial conference.
He said the Board must act quickly because time is the most essential factor. He also added that it was self-evident that the Board should be regarded as part of the big Pan American defence plan.
The Board will adjourn after completion of its present work, he said—United Press.
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