Chapter 70: Burgers

“Of course!” Pamela Mountbatten took the telegram and tucked it into her arms and thanked her with a smile on her face, “But well, thanks.”

After saying the words holding the telegram Pamela Mountbatten jumped and left the governor’s residence, Sir Barron shrugged his shoulders helplessly, he still has a lot of things to do, but also need to contact the provincial administrators.

Raise food from British India to solve the difficulties of Europe, this point Sir Barron has no opinion. To put it bluntly, the British Empire has been doing this for more than a hundred years, the problem is that the food in British India, is not able to meet the domestic demand.

If it can not meet well? Not without a way, Sir Barron can only for the sake of the big picture, the reluctance to increase the intensity.

In fact, as of now, British India’s rainfall is low, although there is no great impact on the scope of the famine, but under the drought, British India’s food accumulation, carry through the year after how much can still be left, or very doubtful.

This year’s rainy season in British India has come two weeks later than expected, do not look down on this half a month, this is already a very serious problem, once the response is not good, this year there may be a surge in food prices.

This Alan Wilson because he is already in Europe, naturally, he does not know the memory of next year’s famine has already appeared signs, he only knows that the second year after the end of World War II, famine swept through Eurasia. With the Soviet Union encountered the most famous famine, the Indian famine is simply not many people know.

This is of course, what is India, who cares how many people starve to death? The USSR was a thorn in the side of the United States, Britain and France, and when there was a little bit of wind, the United States, Britain and France couldn’t wait to take a loudhailer and broadcast it all over the place.

Also because of famine deaths, the Soviet Union’s life is heavier than Mount Tai, the Indian life is worthless, who cares?

India was already a starving country, and in times of peace most people were dealing with not having enough to eat. Why should we have the luxury of expecting the wind and the rain when we don’t have enough to eat anyway?

Pamela Mountbatten is still carefully holding the telegram to see the world, Allen Wilson entered another round of busy, sometimes he wondered if he had done all the work of the British Empire civil servants.

After receiving the task of liaison with British India, he immediately left Berlin, taking advantage of these days of free time, to Germany’s important port of the British-occupied area of Hamburg.

Hamburg, to be exact, was the second largest city in Germany, after the city of Greater Berlin, which was occupied by the Four Powers Division.

It is also Germany’s most important seaport, import and export center, such an important city, as well as the Ruhr area, the center of German industry in the British-occupied zone, you can see that the Yalta Conference, Britain must have taken advantage of the distribution.

Alan Wilson, of course, wanted to make good use of this important legacy that the British Empire had fought for in the Yalta Conference. So he showed his hardworking nature and came to Hamburg in the midst of the busyness.

As for the current situation in Hamburg? To be honest, it is very poor, because of the important position of Hamburg, has been the main target of the British Air Force strategic bombing, used to deter the German public support for the war.

Strategic bombing is a large-scale mixture of incendiary bombs and bombs, the purpose of which is to cause a fire in the city. Bomber formations arrived in the sky above Hamburg, and after dive-bombing over and over again, high explosives and incendiary bombs were rained down on the city of Hamburg, which instantly became a sea of flames, with a large number of buildings set ablaze, and then the neighborhoods completely burned down, making the whole city of Hamburg a sea of huge fires.

In the continuous bombing, the British and American bomber formations, dropped 10,000 tons of bombs, killed more than 40,000 people, purely from the power of the above, has been not much worse than the upcoming use of the Little Boy.

“I didn’t realize the situation in Hamburg was so bad!” Alan Wilson sat in the middle of the military vehicle that picked him up and couldn’t help but sigh, the damage in France was simply an order of magnitude different from here.

Hamburg is full of debris, and the closer it gets to the harbor the worse it gets, looking out, the surviving German populace can be much more miserable than the current citizens of Greater Berlin.

“Liaison Officer, that’s what’s happening here now. The cleanup is very slow! And there’s already a food problem.” The captain who came over to pick up Allen Wilson said bitterly, “I really don’t know what to do.”

“Has there been a multitude of black market transactions? It’s like that everywhere where order has collapsed.” Seeing the situation here, Allen Wilson’s heart said honestly, he didn’t even want to return to Berlin right now, what Potsdam Conference, what to remain famous in history, all of them were bullshit, he only wanted to trade a cigarette for a Dragoon in this city that had been paralyzed.

“Yes, liaison officer, the black market trading market is rampant, food and cigarettes are the most in demand right now, even a classical piano can be traded for potatoes.” The Captain replied without hiding anything, “People are fighting to fill their bellies.”

“That’s a tragedy!” Mindful of the greatness of the situation, Alan Wilson could not help but frown and say vociferously, “Perhaps the uninterrupted strategic bombing of Hamburg in the first place was indeed a cruel decision.”

Come to pick up Allen Wilson’s captain also acquiesced in silence, he is just an ordinary officer, see the tragic situation in Hamburg naturally can not be indifferent, thought in front of the age of the liaison officer moved compassion, do not know how to comfort, can only reach out and pat Allen Wilson’s shoulders.

Simple captain how to know, Allen Wilson simply does not exist conscience that kind of thing, Bengal famine appeared, to New Delhi Sir Barron sent a lot of telegrams, it is he sent on behalf of the old Wilson, the wording is similar to the telegram that arrived in New Delhi yesterday.

Alan Wilson arrived in Hamburg, on the one hand, is to hear and Ali Khan’s in India to bring food ship has arrived in England, is coming towards Hamburg, Ali Khan’s London steward Alim also come together, so came to Hamburg to meet. Another purpose was to see what heritage could be found in the British-occupied areas.

Led by British soldiers, Alan Wilson first went to the British command in Hamburg, and then visited Field Marshal Busch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army in Northwest Europe. Is there a German presence in Germany at the moment? Actually there were, right in the British occupied zone.

Montgomery placed German troops under the authority of Field Marshal Busch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army in Northwest Europe. In conjunction with Field Marshal Montgomery’s efforts to maintain stability in the British-occupied zone, the British-occupied zone can be said to be under the control of the Anglo-German allied forces. Field Marshal Busch’s chief of staff and staff were located in the British command.

Montgomery in the city of Great Berlin, receiving praise and honors from all sides, coupled with the Potsdam Conference will soon be held, at present the daily work of the British-occupied zone, is chaired by Lieutenant General Ronald Weeks.

Energetic Alan Wilson, the reason for such diligence, the purpose is of course to come over to the bottom.