GERMANS SHORT OF FOOD.
RIOTS IN BERLIN. ' ' (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) .. * ' ' . LONDON, March 22. Neutrals arriving from Germany, state that the German people are heavily feeling the effects of the British blockade. The middle classes are suffering from the lack of necessaries, and are bitterly resenting the bluffing statement of : Dr. Helfferich. (Minister for. Finance) fd.'the ..'.-. : ., ! ".''.'■' '" '',,'J-j".".. *,-■ The great. shortage of potatoes, milk, butter, meat and bread in Berlin resulted in a recurrence of riots by women*of the city. The .mounted police brutally quelled the disturbances and. trampled down "the people unmercifully. • Numbers were injured, and some were killed..
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 71, 23 March 1916, Page 5
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