FOOD SCANDALS IN GERMANY
EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS PUBLIC EXPLOITED BY MUNICIPALITIES
• London, December 20. The "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent reports that extraordinary food scandals bave been revealed in Germany, and have aroused general indignation. Practically every municioality in the country has been engaging in war profiteering, in order to recoup itself for its war expenditure. The Government should' have made pood this expenditure, but it has other things to do with its monoy, so the municipalities have been selling foodstuffs to the munition workers iind others at extortionate prices. They have thus made the municipal balancesheets tolerable. Many council took the opportunity to help their friends, particularly their own employees, who were given full rations of milk, potatoes, and bread, while the public wpt'o half starved. * The "Yonvaerts" states . that foodstuffs 'were often sold at 500 ' per cent, nbnve the Government maximum prices.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 76, 22 December 1917, Page 9
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142FOOD SCANDALS IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 76, 22 December 1917, Page 9
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