GERMAN NEED FOR FATS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1650, 14 December 1916, Page 4

GERMAN NEED FOR FATS.

Mr ri. T. Curtin, an American writer, discussing in the London Times the food situation in Germany, where he had been for many months, says that mud recently ihc whole stale of affairs has been exaggerated by portions of the alius! press. Stories of starvation are the kind of thing that spreads rapidly. A few hungry, angry women demanding butter after standing five or six hours in the rain or snow and breaking a few windows is an event easily magnified into a food riot. English and American people read „f meatless and fatless days. It is not the absence of meal, but the absence of fat, that hurts. Cooking without fat or grease of any kind is a task that taxes the cleverest housewife. There is fa) in Germany the entry of which can be stopped. It consists of the olive or cottonseed oil ill which Norwegian sardines are preserved. These sardines are being stored all over the -empire “for the coming seige,” as my American friends in Berlin call it." After the sardines have been eaten—also, by the way, rather fatiguing diet after 3tt or 40 meals of .them —the oil is used for frying. In the opinion of thoughtful neutrals in Germany, the kindest way of helping to end )im war would be narrowly to watch the peij)ral imports of oil of all kinds. The effect •will not be immediate. The Germans are a nation of squirrels in the matter of storing up, and they have been preparing for a very trying •winter.