GERMAN HUNGER SPECTRE.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 June 1919, Page 3

GERMAN HUNGER SPECTRE.

FAMINE IN BERLIN. No matter where ono begins, one always comes back to the food, question as to the root of all the trouble here and now, wrote a correspondent from Berlin on March 7. An informant tells me he has heard people in the queues saying to one another. "In the last resource we are at any rate all armed." Ho is convinced that if the Government, could better the fcod situation and the people could get work the situation could still be saved, but it is a question of days only. Children are repeatedly becoming ill, and never get completely well again. A half-litre (seven-eights of a pint) of milk is allowed daily for infants up to six months, and Avomen are seldom able to suckle their babies. The weekly rations include 4|lb of bread, J)oz of meat, including bones, and 51b of potatoes. The allowance of fats varies from one to 230 z. A pound and a-half of sugar a month is allowed. Non-rationed vegetables are very dear, a single cauliflower costing a shilling. A single rabbit costs 30s, and a fresh c-gg 2s, but they are scarcely ever obtainable. Poultry is net rationed, and is lGs to 18s a pound. The people eat their week's bread allowance in the first three days.