EMMY'S FOOD SHORTAGE.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 10 January 1917, Page 5

EMMY'S FOOD SHORTAGE.

HIGH PRICES IN VIENNA. Received 9.5. ROME, Jan. 9. A letter from the Papal Nuncio at Vienna states that eggs cost 20s per dozen, and most other commodities are proportionately dear. GERMAN CRISIS. AN ALLEGED BENEFIT. AMSTERDAM, Jan. S. The "Lokal Anzeiger" publishes an article by Professor Heinrieh Rosin, food specialist, who says, "This hatebor.n, curse-laden starvation Avar is benefiting many sufferers. There have been many complete cures of gout and corpulence owing to the compulsory war diet. It is a God-send to weaklings who fail to follow their medical advisers. Professor Rosin is amazed to find comparatively few sign s of weakening in the physical powers of the great masses of the people. Emaciation is pretty general, especially in towns, but this is seldom accompanied by weakness. A decrease of fifty pounds is not a rare result of the war diet. IN SIGHT.. AMSTERDAM. Jan. S. Despite Professor Rosin's optimism, travellers insist that there is increased destitution in Austria and Germany. There have been many serious illnesses owing to lack of proper nourishment. A diplomatist who was recently in Berlin states that the people are living chiefly on potatoes, fish and sausages, but the bread is of bad quality and the scarcity in some districts amounts almost to famine. This is particularly the case in Hamburg, where the people are very weak. Many Germans are aiv riving in Holland, Denmark and Sweden with children suffering from wasting diseases due to want of proper food. Some members of German legations in neutral countries admit that the Austrians and Germans will be unable to last more than three months. Starvation i s within sight. There is the same strain of growing despondency in intercepted letters. Bread is fairly plentiful. Wheat and rye are estimated at one and a half million tons better than in 1915. Barley and oats are three and a half million tons better. The Entente must not look to the enemy's immediate exhaustion, as thero is enough food for many weeks. The people ar.e irritated, but there are not yet signs of revolution. Railway travelling is limited to essential business journeys.