IN GERMANY
THE FOOD SUPPLIES.
HARVEST PROSPECTS POOR. ROTTERDAM, May 31. Berlin messages state that Herr yon Bata'eko h carrying out the organisation of the food supply with characteristic Prussian thoroughness. He is securing inventories of the food in ali private houses. Tim municipal authorities of Berlin "Jiavo established 2-j large kitchens to supply food to 620,000 persons daily, the price of a meal being 35 pfonnige (about 4d). Other municipalities aretaking similar action. Communal feeding -.vns originally intended only for \vorkir!g~:-!asH districts, but. the fact that many middle-class people are in a sad plight ia causing an agitation in favonr of the authorities feeding rich and poor in a uniform manner. Tho (U>rrniv.\ harvest nromisos to bo exoeptio-Mil'y poor. 'Prior to tho war 700,000 tc,;ir, of nitrates wero imported for. agnciilt'iral purposes, but none has been used this year.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8464, 1 June 1916, Page 6
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140IN GERMANY THE FOOD SUPPLIES. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8464, 1 June 1916, Page 6
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