GERMANY’S FOOD PROBLEM

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 149, 27 June 1916, Page 5

GERMANY’S FOOD PROBLEM

Received 10-55 p.m., June 26. LONDON, June 26.

A Berlin message says that Herr Battocki, the Food Dictator, states that a temporary prohibition of the consumption of meat may perhaps be expected in September. New meat tickets would be issued to-day, allowing ten ounces of meat per head weekly. Bread rations for the working classes would he increased in August. The bread reserve j upon which the country is now living, is only possible by economy of grain under the War Department. If the central purchase company had been unsuccessful in regard to imports of grain, Germany would have been seriously embarrassed. It depended upon the result of the harvest whether the present rations could be continued. Cold weather during May had done damage, but the crops promised good yields if the harvest weather was good. Herr Battocki considers communal feeding in large towns is desirable. '