GERMAN FOOD POLICY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2825, 17 July 1916, Page 5

GERMAN FOOD POLICY

SOLDIERS FIRST disclosures in letters Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ~ London. July u. J".'- V Gil) ' 3s ffir c 3: Germany's K pohcy 15—soldiers first.' Prisoners' Jotters disclose increasing hardships. A woman wrote: "You rcproach mo for cot ™ tln S- If I told the truth about conditions here at home I would be looked p. .There are tickets for everything, flour, sausage, su jar, and soap." Another woman wrote'.'England-is not so wrong, about starring us. If the war lasts another three months wo will be none. Go<l is punishing us over-severely, v\© have had no meat for six weeks. W© are ail on tho downward path. Riots continue m tho markets. Some people with money aro unable to buy anything." ilr Gibbs comments; There is only one satisfaction m these pitiful letfersnamely, the hope that the devil at the back of tho business will realise that war does not pay. , NO NEED TO WORRY OPTIMISTIC OFFICIAL VIEW n It N °w York, July H. , in© Minister of Agriculture interviewed, said thcr© was no need •to worry lor anothor year. Last year's harvest was very, poor, but this "vear it is much greater. Potatoes would bo plentiful, and tho barley and oat crops abundant. tho outlook for the meat supnjy was improving. CIVILIANS FORCED TO WORK EMPLOYED AT AGRICULTURE Amsterdam, Julv 11. _ On the pretext that" the British Nary is stopping food supplies, the Germans have transferred 15,000 civilians from Lille, 10,000 from Roubaix, and 5000 from lurcoiuff to Mezieros and Charleville, employing them at agricultural work.