Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 1 June 1916, Page 2

Germany

THE COUNTRY FROM WITHIN THE FOOD PROBLEM.

Lllnciko Tubbs Association.) Rotterdam, .May 31

Berlin messages state that Heir von Batoeks is carrying out the organisation of food with characteristic Prussian thoroughness. He is securing inventories of food in all private houses in the municipality of Berlin, and has established 2o large kitchens, to supply (520,000 persons daily. The price oi a meal is now thirty-five pfennig. Other municipalities have taken action. Commercial feeding was originally intended for the working-class districts, but in Lent many middle-class people were in a sad plight, causing an agitation in favor oi the authorities feeding rich and poor in a uniform manner. The German harvest promises to he | exceptionally poor. Prior to the wai 700,000 .tons of nitrates had been imported for agricultural purposes, hut none were used this year. NATION OF VEGETARIANS. A private letter that was smuggled out of Germany says: “Vie are all becoming vegetarians. We have only a quarter of a pound of meat and two eggs each week. This sounds dreadful, but vegetables are abundant. Asparagus is cheaper than ever, and the fish supply is excellent, though there is little butter and oil to cook them with. Berlin is as joyous as ever, and all racecourses are active. A million and a half marks one day passed through the “Parimutuel,” but everybody except the officials arc utterly weary of the war. The Germans cannot understand why the Allies persist in it. I bis week we were all betlagged on account of the defeat of Italy, which is supposed to have finished her. All the good news, however, does not affect the desire to end the war, and the belief is universal that we will have a victorious peace before next winter. It is reported that forty-seven Zeppelins bave been lost since the beginning of the war, and twenty-two submarines were turned out of the Schwartzkopf factory during the last eight months.”