TOOK SIX WEEKS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 9

TOOK SIX WEEKS.

TO BUY 12 COLLARS. RESTRICTION IN GERMANY. 810 SHORTAGE OF FOOD. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, this day. A shortage of certain classes of food end the imposition of restrictions on the sale of certain goods are remarked on by a Napier resident in a letter written after a recent tour of Germany. "There in a big shortage of food apparent," he said. "We were fed on meat and potatoes most of the time we were in Germany—you can't get fresh vegetables or fruit. What food is not sold is stored to feed the troops in the event of war. Butter is practically unobtainable. "There are restrictions, too, on other goods. I met a German who wanted to buy a dozen collar*. It took him six weeks to do it because there ie a limit of two collars a week." The writer remarks on the poor quality of materials in clothing worn by many Germans, especially any material used for garment* usually made of wool. "Uniforms for Nazie and soldiers," he nays, "are made from a material which is a composition of paper, ground glass and a little wool. They shrink to nothing as soon a* they get wet. In spite of all thie the people all look fit ami well, "Their funning is inwt intensive andj every inch of ground is cultivated. Hill-; «:<!<■» which we in X«"W Zealand would. think inipossible to d<» anything with arc tenured arid carry crops." The writer remarks ah'o on fijrns of| internal tmre-t in Germany. He was, tnic! Ijv a number of Germans, he «ays,: that the longer a general war was put|

off the greater .was the chance of popular uiircwt and civil war in Germany. It was commonly believed that one factor which kept Germany from facing a war last September and on subsequent occasions was Field Marshal Goer ing's warning to Herr Hitler that the forces available for the front lines would be limited owing to the necessity of having to keep many thousands at home to preserve civil order.