The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1913. MEAT FOR GERMANY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1913. MEAT FOR GERMANY.

That the German Government lias allowed even a temporary reduction in the Customs duty on imported frozen meat as stated in a cable message received a day or so ago, indicates that this meat is gaining favour and that further pressure will be brought to bear to compel the authorities to allow the meat-hungry people to buy the good beef and mutton offering in plenty from New Zealand, Australia, and the Argentine. It is well-known that the shortage of meat in Germany’s cities and large towns has been growing more severe month by month lately and the home growers, who are already supplementing their stocks with importations from Hungary, are not able to give any definite promise of an improvement. It is explained that the demand has quite outgrown the supply, and to-day the Germans are denied in order that a landed aristocracy may make huge profits. ■ The Socialists in the Reichstag and outside have put the facts plainly, and during December a correspondent in Berlin predicted that the Government would be forced by popular pressure to relax the prohibitory Customs regulations until the price of meat had been reduced to a point which could be reached by the w orkers. The concession has come at last, and there will be much bitterness and outcry if the people’s chance of obtaining cheap and good meat is again taken from them.