HOW THE GERMAN POOR LIVE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 107, 12 November 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOW THE GERMAN POOR LIVE.

. arrives at the real truth, more iu n i>y scanning the columns of the obscurer German papers than by searching for it in the bigger and bot(tcr known sheets, which, being all .snore or less controlled by the Governi ment, or, at least, subject to closest .official scrutiny, can sejdom risk the . danger of stating facts unwatered or \undoctored. ; Thus (remarks the "Morning Post) whilt journals of £he stamp of the Norddeutscho Allgemeine Zeitung, for nstance, persist in declaring that there is not lung the matter with the Fatherland economically: that everything is going on all over the country just as though there was no war raging, one read* in the unfamilliar " Westdeutsche ArMter-Zeitung" accounts, bearing all the evidence to truth, which show that in certain parts of Germany— at any rate the West—there is increasing distress among the working classes, and that many kinds of food arc becoming so dear as to be almost beyond • the reach o Ftlie vast majority. <. The journal mentioned does not 6tate t\hc«e tilings at random, but. with characteristic Teutonic thoroughness, goes fully into all tlie details of prices an 3 /supplies. It ends a striking artici*. /with this reflection respecting the ; wives of the men called to the colours: 1 —How do they manage on their war iallowance? Here is an enigma which would test the wit of Solomon liim\solf. Nevertheless, they contrive to ,do it. or have contrived so far: but it .were better not to n«k them how!''