IT GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 December 1917, Page 5

IT GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

GERMAN PROFITEERS.

EXTRAORDINARY FOOD SCAN-

DALS.

Received 10.50 # LONDON, Dec 20.

The Daily Chronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent reports that extraordinary food scandals have been revealed in Germany, which have aroused general indignation. Practically every municipality in the country has been engaged in war profiteering by orders to recoup themselves for war expenditure. The Government should £r.t€ made good this expenditure, but it has other things to do with it's money, and so municipalities have been selling foodstuffs to munition workers and others at extortionate prices and have thus made municipal balance sheets tolerable. Many councils took the opportunity to help their friends, particularly their own employees, who were given full rations of milk, potatoes and bread, while the public were semi-starved. The Yorwaerts states that foodstuffs were often sold at 500 per cent above the Government maximum pri-