TWO COUSINS—A CONTRAST.
King George V. and the Royal Family lived in the simplest fashion, even to the adoption of the ration system in force for his subjects, while all the fruit from the Royal estates were sent to military hospitals. A discovery made in Berlin at the end of November reveals a very different state of affairs at the Imperial Palace in Berlin. An inspection was carried out by delegates of the Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council, and the delegates were shown over the royal residence, what they found there being beyond even the craziest anticipations. One of the delegates writes: It was almost incredible that, after four years of war anybody could have hoarded so much food in the very centre of Berlin. There were tons of meat and poultry preserved in ice, thousands of sacks of white flour, hundreds of thousands of eggs, gigantic receptacles full of fats, coffee, tea, chocolate, and preserves, hundreds of large sugar loaves. There was enough to feed a large town for a long time.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1941, 18 February 1919, Page 1
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172TWO COUSINS—A CONTRAST. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1941, 18 February 1919, Page 1
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