Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918. STRAITS OF THE GERMANS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1868, 24 August 1918, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918. STRAITS OF THE GERMANS.

WRITTEN evidence is in French hands to Ihe effect Hint a German soldier from the Rhine provinces has solemnly stated that he would, have died of hunger but for food received from home. A mother, writing to her son, states that she has heard several cases other than his of hunger, but she adds that she does not hive to send bread because it travels badly, being mostly made of bran, and because parcels are distributed to men to whom they are not addressed. A woman, in a letter dated in March, complains that she is compelled to furnish 175 eggs, and quotes cases of one. person who was denounced for secretly hilling a pig, and of another who was denounced for cutting wood, the information in both cases being sent to the police anonymously. From Silesia. there is a complaint, dated February, about the approaching lack of food, boots, clothes, and coal. Pigs there might no longer be fattened, and there was a threat that coffee mills would be confiscated because the public was substituting cereals for coffee. An indication of the state of affairs comes from Bavaria, the letter saying, “It is not only on the field of battle that death reigns. Here there are many deaths. Young people and old are dying off suddenly and unexpectedly.”