SKELETON IN THE ENEMY'S! CUPBOARD.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 118, 19 May 1916, Page 3

SKELETON IN THE ENEMY'S! CUPBOARD.

DEAETH IN BEELIN AND VIENNA. "Truth cannot be hidden any longer" exclaims "Carl S" in a message from Berlin to Stockholm on March 27.

"T-be poorer classes in the capital are actually reduced to starvation. For them neither butter no'r lard can be got for love or money. Margarine to the extent of four ounces per person per week can be got only after hours ( f waiting in a queme. More often than not, even then, the needs of only a few can be satisfied.

"It is no means an uncommon tiling that in such cases tho dissatisfied ci/owd breaks shop windows or pillages

shops. "Hunger is, generally speaking, the most powerful of tbe enemies which Berlin and Germany have. Bitter distress naturally creates unrest amongst the woft'king clase; and uproars and revolts in the poorer quarter;: of Berlin are almot daily happenings. There is money enough in Berlin, but little enough to buy with »t.

"Fried dishes are 'off' in many hoi.oholds, since even margajrim- may not be used for, cooking mi/'p-JH*!*.

"Milk is only allowed for the feeding of babies and every infringement of this order is puois.io.J very severely. The quality of the war-bread is getting worse. Thousands of families .have emigrated to neutral countries. There is also a scarcity of horses and busses in many towns nr.»- bvinjj drawn by mules, and the vehicle must run unfilled as the mules have not the strength to diaw a fully ladri jmnlh h. "The lac.': of iumi has W to women undertaking even such isravy work os excavation. The digging of earth the underground under the Frieririchs-t-asse in Berlin is now entirely performed by women who work day and night.