GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE, j LOOKING FOR SUPPHES. ■ ilsceived Oct. 31, 3.30 p.m. Copenhagen, Oct. 30. Tlie Politiken states tliat Germany is entering on a second winter campaign with u serious food shortage, and only a few cau afford to satisfy their appetites. The Germans are hoping for success in the Balkans, to secure supplier through Constantinople and Sofia. THE MEAT PROBLEM. STRINGENT REGULATIONS. Received Nov. 1, 12.20 a.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 31. The German Federal Council has decreed that butchers must not sell raw or cooked meat on Tuesdays and Fridays, and that restaurants must not serve meat, venison, poultry, lisli, or dishes cooked with lard or bacon dripping, on .Mondays and Thursdays. Tork must not he sold on Saturdays. There is no prohibition, of meat dishes ,in private houses, as the Council expects the well-to-do to perform their duty to the Fatherland, and so facilitate a more regular distribution of foodstuffs containing fat.

BERLIN IN DISMAY. WHY IS THK WAR STILL RAGING, SERIOUS INTERNAL CONDITIONS. Received Oct. 31, 4,15 p.m. London, Oct. 30. A cable to the New York Tribune says tlmt a neutral who has returned to Germany state-; that the internal conditions (here a/f more serious than the world knows. The recent riots in Berlin were n;ily .manifestations of the spirit of III 1 people. A Stats food monopoly is surely coming, bat the authorities are delaying' this owing to the alarm it would cause. The papers, he says, contain nothing Unit reports of great victories, but the people arc suspicious of official news, and are asking: "If these victories have been achieved, why is the war continuing, and why are the Allies refusing to talk peace 1"