Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 92, 20 July 1916, Page 5

Germany

INTERNAL CONDITIONS.

FEAR OF DEFEAT CROWING

AUTHORITIES CULL PUBLIC BY LYING MESSAGES.

HOLLWEC IN DISFAVOR.

FOOD PROBLEM ACUTE.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra-

lian am) N.Z. Cable Association. '■! ;i*MfiC:., Amsterdam, July 19

Conflicting accounts of the internal conditions prevailing in Germany through the fear of defeat are growing. The authorities are making an intense effort to prevent the public understanding the significance of, the Somme offensive. The public are hypnotised by means of lying messages from the newspapers of, the neutral countries which are in Gorman pay.

The general impression among politicians is that Prince Bulow is about to supersede Herr Von Bcthmann Hollweg as Chancellor. The food problem continues to ho acute.

Dr. Battack, Food Minister, says: "J. failed to persuade the Southern States! to permit ftho exportation of foods in order .to!:secure equal distribution." :', . '• "-

The Prussian authorities strongly resent the action of the southerners owing to the failure of the kitchens-on-wheels problem. COMMUNAL FEEDING. Communal feeding in Berlin is being solved by huge public dining halls. The first kitchen has a side of three boilers, holding thirty thousand litres of food. Hundreds of women are employed preparing the meals, using electrical potato-cutting machines, gas stoves, and other lab-our-saving appliances. Specially-con-structed motor cars carry the food to, the distributing depots.

THE MENU CARD.

The following is the week's bill-of-fare: Monday, rice and potatoes. Tuesday, meat. Wednesday, beans and fat. Thursday, macaroni. Friday, beans and potatoes. Saturday, cabbages and potatoes. Sunday, minced meat and potatoes.

A portion equal to a litre is sold for lour pence, and 210,000 litres are sold dailv in Berlin.

The better class of people are willing to rub shoulders with the humblest in the common dining halls.

THE KASSEfI'S SEftMON. "IF THE LORD WALKED INTO THIS ROOM!" "COULD WE LOOK HIM IN THE FACE!" APPEAL FOR PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY! JUDGMENT DAY, PERHAPS! Press' Association—Copyright. Published in "The Times." fßeceived !) a.m..

| London, July 10. I The Times' correspondent at Amsterdam reports the Kaiser's spring sermon to the field-chaplains as follows:—"We must show a stern front in this time of trial for the world. iWe are separating the corn from the I chaff. We need practical Christianity. If the Lord walked into this 'room, do. you think wp could look him in the face. You must show us the personality of the Lord, who i., now assuredly walking through the ivorld, perhaps to judgment*