"Of course!" Pamela Mountbatten took the telegram, stuffed it into her arms and thanked her with a smile, "But, thank you."
After speaking, Pamela Mountbatten jumped away from the Government House with the telegram in hand. Sir Barron shrugged helplessly. He still had many things to do and needed to contact the chief executives of each province.
Lord Barron has no objection to raising food from British India to solve Europe's difficulties. To put it bluntly, the British Empire has been doing this for more than a hundred years. The question is whether the food from British India can satisfy the domestic demand.
need.
If you can't be satisfied? It's not that there is no way. Sir Barron can only increase the intensity for the sake of the overall situation.
In fact, up to now, the rainfall in British India has been relatively low. Although there has been no famine with a wide impact, under the drought, how much of the grain accumulation in British India will be left after this year?
Very questionable.
This year's rainy season in British India has arrived two weeks later than expected. Don't underestimate this half-month period. This is already a serious problem. If not handled properly, food prices may skyrocket this year.
In this regard, since Alan Wilson was already in Europe, he naturally did not know that there were signs of the famine next year in his memory. He only knew that in the second year after World War II, famine swept across the Eurasian continent. The famine encountered in the Soviet Union was the most famous.
, not many people knew about the famine in India.
Of course, what is India? Who cares how many people starved to death? The Soviet Union was a thorn in the side of the United States, Britain and France. If there was any slight disturbance, the United States, Britain and France would be eager to broadcast it everywhere with loudspeakers.
Also due to famine, the lives of Soviet people are worth more than Mount Tai, and the lives of Indians are worthless. Who cares?
India is originally a country with hungry people. In peacetime, most people are facing days of not having enough to eat. They don’t have enough to eat anyway, so why should we have the luxury of expecting good weather?
Pamela Mountbatten was still carefully holding the telegram to reflect on things and people, while Alan Wilson entered another round of busy work. Sometimes he wondered whether he had done all the work of a civil servant in the British Empire.
After receiving the task of contacting British India, he immediately left Berlin and took advantage of his free time in the past few days to go to Hamburg, an important port in the British-occupied area of Germany.
To be precise, Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany, after Greater Berlin, which was occupied by the Four Kingdoms.
It is also Germany's most important seaport, import and export center, such an important city, and the Ruhr area, the German industrial center in the British-occupied area. It can be seen that during the Yalta Conference, the United Kingdom definitely took advantage of the distribution.
Of course, Alan Wilson hoped to make good use of this important legacy that the British Empire fought for at the Yalta Conference. So he showed his hard-working nature and came to Hamburg in the midst of his busy schedule.
As for the current situation in Hamburg? To be honest, it is very bad. Because of Hamburg's important status, it has always been the main target of the British Air Force's strategic bombing to deter the German public from supporting the war.
Strategic bombing is a large-scale mixed bombing of incendiary bombs and bombs, with the purpose of causing a fire in the city. The bomber formation arrived over Hamburg, and after dive bombing over and over again, it dropped high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs like raindrops on the city of Hamburg.
A sea of fire broke out in Hamburg, and a large number of buildings were ignited. Then the neighborhood was completely burned down, and the entire Hamburg became a huge sea of fire.
During the continuous bombing, the British and American bomber formations dropped 10,000 tons of bombs, killing more than 40,000 people. In terms of power, it was not much worse than the Little Boy who was about to be put into use.
"I didn't expect the situation in Hamburg to be so bad!" Alan Wilson, sitting in the military vehicle that picked him up, couldn't help but sigh that the extent of damage in France was simply an order of magnitude worse than here.
There are ruins everywhere in Hamburg, and the closer they get to the port, the worse they get. Looking outside, the surviving German people are much miserable than the citizens of Greater Berlin today.
"Liaison officer, the situation here is like this now. The cleanup work is very slow! And there is a food problem." The captain who came to pick up Alan Wilson said with a wry smile, "I really don't know what to do."
"Are there a lot of black market transactions? This is the case in places where order has collapsed." Seeing the situation here, Alan Wilson told the truth in his heart, he didn't want to go back to Berlin at all now, what about the Potsdam Conference, what about leaving a mark in history
, it’s all bullshit, he just wants to exchange a cigarette for a dragoon in this paralyzed city.
"Yes, Liaison Officer, the black market is rampant. Food and cigarettes are the most scarce items at the moment. Even a classical piano can be exchanged for potatoes." The captain replied without any concealment, "People buy food to fill their stomachs.
Fight."
"That's really a tragedy!" The thought was so good that Alan Wilson couldn't help but frown and said with emotion, "Maybe the non-stop strategic bombing of Hamburg was indeed a cruel decision."
The captain who came to pick up Alan Wilson also remained silent. He was just an ordinary officer. He couldn't remain indifferent after seeing the tragic situation in Hamburg. He thought that the liaison officer of this age in front of him was moved by compassion. He didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only reach out and pat him.
Patted Alan Wilson on the shoulder.
How could a simple captain know that Alan Wilson had no such thing as conscience? When the Great Famine occurred in Bengal, many of the telegrams sent to Sir Barron in New Delhi were sent by him on behalf of old Wilson. The wording was similar to the telegram that arrived in New Delhi yesterday.
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Alan Wilson arrived in Hamburg. On the one hand, he heard that Ali Khan's cargo ship carrying grain from India had arrived in England and was heading towards Hamburg. Ali Khan's London butler Alim also came with him, so he came to Hamburg to greet him.
One purpose is to see what heritage can be found in the British-occupied areas.
Under the guidance of the British soldiers, Alan Wilson first went to the British headquarters in Hamburg, and then visited Marshal Busch, the commander-in-chief of the German forces in northwest Europe. Are there currently German troops in Germany? In fact, there are, in the British-occupied areas.
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Montgomery placed the German troops under the jurisdiction of Marshal Busch, the commander-in-chief of the German forces in northwest Europe. He cooperated with Marshal Montgomery to maintain the stability of the British-occupied area. The British-occupied area could be said to be under the control of the British-German coalition. Marshal Busch's chief of staff and staff were both
Works at the British Army Headquarters.
Montgomery is in Greater Berlin, accepting praises and awards from all parties. In addition, the Potsdam Conference is about to be held. The daily work of the British-occupied zone is currently presided over by Lieutenant General Ronald Weeks.
The reason why Alan Wilson, who is so motivated, is so hard-working is of course to come here to buy the bottom.