NO MORE TEA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2352, 7 January 1915, Page 6

NO MORE TEA

—'— . ENEMY, SHORT OF MANY THINGS. My neutral informants tell: me there is now practically no more tea in Ger-. many, writes F. W. Vile in the "Daily Mail." What is sold and served as such is described as tasting like hay. Coffee, it is said, will almost have completely disappeared by Christmas, and rice is already a vanished commodity. Austria is facing a flour famine, with no prospect of relief from Germany, which is already baking a good deal of its bread with potato meal. • But Germans bear all their discomforts. in tho luxurious hope of the forthcoming conquest of England. What is awakening from their dreams will be is beyond all comparison the most fantastic speculation war conjures up at this time of writing. The Schwartzkopf Company, of Berlin, the leading .manufacturers of German torpedoes, states in its annual report, just issued, that it' has received such colossal orders from' the Kaisor'fi Navy irince' tho beginning of tho war that in addition to its own works it has had to utilise the facilities of other firms. The company makes the significant statement that "the result of the current business year will depend principally oil the continuation, from now on,-of an adequate supply of raw material and also on. whether tho working staff will be further decimated by calls for larger numbers of troopu."