Feeding the Huns.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 26, 1 April 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

Feeding the Huns.

RATIONS OF GERMAN SOLDIERS. Stories to the effect that the Germans are likely to defeat themselves through lack of food (or their soldiers may be dismissed as somewhat improbable; for Germany, like all other civilised nations, has long recognised the important pad food supplies would play in a great war, and for years has made the feeding of her soldiers a matter for scientific study. The daily ration which has been prescribed as the best fortification for a German fighting man's stomach includes 260z. of fresh bread or 17oz. of biscuit: 13oz. of fresh meat or 7oz. of smoked meat; 4oz. of rice or Boz. of flour or 520z. of potatoes; nearly loz. of sa.lt, nearly loz of roasted coffee or 1-lOoz. of tea; and loz of sugar. The amount of bread eaten in a week by the German soldiers now in the held would make ,i loaf 393 ft. high and weighing 60,130,0001b. Meat eaten in tho same time would make a sirle of bacon lM)ft. long and weighing 16,030,0001b. The figures given are for the standard ration, .vhich is probably a very different thing from that actually being consumed along the great battle formation, where there is a great flexibility ns to tho food to be used. It is possible that pemmican is entering into the ration very largely. Some idea of the enormous expense of the war will be gained from the fact that the daily cost of provisions for the combined armies is estimated at £2,500000 without the expense of transportation, which would add another 010,000 to the total.