GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

SCARCITY OF MEAT. 608NES AT THE MARKETS. i London, Oct. 2.1. Extraordinary scenes at the meat markets in Berlin are described by the Socialist paper Vorwarti. At one • market near the. central slaughter-house, quite inferior but still fit meat is sold. Although it k open at 7 o'clock in the morning, eight hundred women assembled on the previous afternoon and waited all night. Only six pounds of meat is sold to each customer, and sometimes a soldierwiU push the women aside and insist on being served first. Hundreds of women arc daily supplied. Several have been compelled to wait three nights to procure meat. At the Andreas Halle the crush is tremendous. The police are swept aside and flattened against the walls, and wonten's hats and clothes are torn off. These scenes occur weekly. The prices of commodities are becoming higher and higher. A roast joint, steak, or cutlet seldom appears on a middle-class table. Beef has don-bled in price, eggs are very difficult to obtain, and bread is inferior in quality and insufficient in quantity, "OUR JUST CAUSE." KAISER ON THE STUMP. Received Oct. 25, 7.5 pjn, Amsterdam, Oct. 25. The Kaiser, in a rhapsodical speech to the Prussian Guards, said they had had seventy days' fighting l , storming twenty-nine enemy positions, and had assisted in bringing to an end a campaign that cost the enemy all the frontier fortresses, countless booty, war material, and prisoners. He concluded:—"We are fighting in a just cause. God is with us, and will be with us further."