GERMAN MEATLESS DAYS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 10 August 1916, Page 5

GERMAN MEATLESS DAYS.

EVIDENCE OF SCANTY SUPPLIES. AUTHORITIES URGING ECONOMY’ Main Service. London, Aug. 8. , Statements by German prisoners show that their troops in the trenches . have one meatless day' weekly, and those behind up to four ditto. The meat ration since the war has been reduced about half. Captured army orders frequently allude to the stringency of the British blockade, especially the scarcity of fodder. The men are warned that unless they keep within the fodder allowance It will be impossible to hold to the eiid. The documents as a whole show the increasing difficulty of feeding the German Army, and the energy wherewith the commanders are trying to stave off the crisis. DEATH PREFERRED TO CAPTURE. ■ SUICIDE IN A DUGOUT. United Service. London, Aug. 9. An Australian officer found in a dugont two German officers who had been “doped.” They were dead, preferring suicide to capture. A medical examination of “dope” found in numerous uugonts disclosed a mixture of opium and other.