COMMUNAL FEEDING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 172, 20 July 1916, Page 5

COMMUNAL FEEDING.

GEKMANTS BIG PROBLEM. PTJBLIC KITCHEHB. VEGETARIAW MET. (Australian and S.Z, Cable AssoclaUon.) . (Received .12.50 pj_)' AMSTERDAM, July 19. Conflicting accounts are received as tc the internal condition of Germany. Although the fear of defeat is growing; the authorities are making an intense Effort to prevent the public from understanding ' the significance of the offensive on thi - Sonune. The public are hypnotised by means of lying messages from newspanert in neutral countries in German pay; The general impression among politleiams is that Prince yon Btildw is about to supersede Herr yon Bethmann-Hollwe' as Chancellor. " -;• ':■:. . The food problem continues to be acute. Herr Battocki-, the Food Dictator, has failed to persuade, [the, southern States of Germany to permit the exportation of food in order to secure an equal distribution. The Prussians strongly resent the action of the southern-Germ-ans in this matter.' Owing to the failure of the project to feed the people by means of kitchens on wheels, the problem of communal feeding is being solved in Berlin by the ' ment of huge public, dining .halls. : The first of these kitchens has sixty-three boilers, holding 30,000 litres of food: Women arc employed in preparing the meals. They are- using electrically- ',--. worked potato-slicers, gas' l -stoves, and other labour-saving devices.-"-Specially constructed motor-cars carry the food' for "distribution to the depot— ;' ; "~' ? v': -.". ■■•■' The week's bill-of-fare'is as follows:— ■ Monday, rice and potatoes; Tttesday, meat; Wednesday, beans,and fat; Thursday, meat and' macaroni; Friday,. beans and . potatoes;.", Saturday,/ jcabbage . and potatoes; Sunday, minced meat and potatoes. .- '■■■;_, ■-:.■• A portion/equal to a litre (one and three-quarter pints) is sold for fourpence. Two hundred and fifty-thousand: litres are sold every day in. Berlin..; The better-class of people are'Trilling'td' rub shoulders with the humblest inthefcommon dining halls. ' -.'..,- . . .. . . _ ,-.. v