FOOD SHORTAGE IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 49, 21 November 1921, Page 4

FOOD SHORTAGE IN GERMANY

STOCKS BOUGHT UP BY FOREIGNERS. Berlin, November 18The Wod situation is increasing in seriousness. Foreigners, profiting 'by toe exchange, are buying up stocks, and this results In soaring prices and acute shortages in many districts. Tile unemployed rioted tn several p.yts of the city end plundered the foodstuff's. lhe police frustrated the rioters' attempt to capture 'the Rechtenberg Town Hall. -Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. CURIOUS MEASURES TO CONSERVE SUPPLIES. (Rcc. November 20, 5.5 p.m.) Berlin, November 19. The Bavarian Government is introducing a curious measure to deal with gour. mauds Those ministering to- gluttony are punishable by fine equal to .£lOO tor a first offence, with a maximum ot five years’ imprisonment for a second offence. The punishment for a glutton has rat vet been disclosed. The law will affect delicatessen shops and big restaurants. Another strange piece of legislation pro. poses that a prisoner sentenced to a Short term shall be allowed to pay fifty thousand marks instead of serving a month in gaol, thus saving the State the cost of their keep. Poor people who are fined will be allowed to substitute 'Jork for the State in place, of the fine.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.