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Captain Gulatta, Supply Officer of the province, in answer to direct   
               questions gave the following:                
 
                                                            
 
 
1. To the question: "Will there be starvation this  
winter in Frosinone Province?" Captain Gulatta answered as follows:   
                       "Widespread".                        
 
                                                            
 
 
 2. To the question: "Will there be death by starvation in   
none Province this winter?", he answered, "I believe there w
 
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 3. "Do you have any stock piles in the province to meet  
                  this?"--His answer: "No"                  
 
                                                            
 
 
 4. "Do you believe that if you hauled food at your present rate,   
you could build stock piles in time for this winter?" He stated that not   
only could he not build stock piles, his present rate of import permitted   
little more than 1/3 of the daily basic rationed food requir
 
                                                            
 
 
5. When Captain Gulatta and Lt. McMillan were asked as to the solution,   
they stated that there was grain in Foggia, Perugia and Viterbo in   
surplus, but they have been unable to break the log jam to bring it to   
this devastated area. Both officers pointed out that empty trains passed   
almost daily through the Viterbo-Perugia region and subsequently through   
the Frosinone area, and they have found no way to have these empty trains   
carry~ wheat between the two places. Both officers stated that although   
they have some truck transports, if all the trucks hauled continuously,   
they could not meet reach more than the daily requirements, and at the   
present they cannot break the log jam to even use this transportation   
available to them. When asked what the situation would be and if they   
anticipated its improvement, they frankly stated that the situation would   
be hopeless unless there were drastic changes in the next two weeks. This   
observer stated that he had seen track convoys going from the front past   
this area empty, and this observer wondered why these empty trucks could   
not be funnelled through Perugia and Viterbo to pick up grain on their way   
to the rear area for combat supplies. Both Captain Gulatta and Lt. McMillan   
agreed that this was an obvious solution and that also the use of the   
empty trains was an obvious solution. Further conferences were held with   
the Sindice of Roccasecca and the Commissioner of the devastated area.   
Both these men said the situation was desperate, and they could see no    
solution, unless the military met its obligations to the area. The   
Italians coversant with the problem in the area offered an additional   
solution--that the system of permits and passes be dispensed with,   
permitting trade to resume its normal course. Italians presently are   
prevented from going into the areas of surplus and returni~ with this   
             surplus on the basis that it will