FEELING THE PINCH

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2691, 10 February 1916, Page 5

FEELING THE PINCH

HOW THE BLOCKADE IS SQUEEZING THE GERMANS Ey Telegraph -Press Association—OopyrMit ( limes and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, February 8Striking evidence that Germany is feeling the blockade is the imposition ot a new set of economic regulations empowering the Government to take control of the whole of the products of German textile industries, and the stringent regulating of retail sales to one article to one customer daily. Acccmpaning the sensational measures are semi-official assurances that there is co scarcity of raw materials, and that the measures taken are merely precautionary. Inspired articles in the Press soothingly seek to allay the public alarm. _ They are quoting the 'Times" economic _ articlos as proof that England admired the Gorman economic conduct of the war, and asking: "Shall England's patriotism shame Germany ?" Tho Government has also further restricted the production of beer, which is now 48 per cent, below normal, and has inaugurated two moat fast days weekly. The Government is also reducing tho soldiers' meat allowance, to avoid ruinous depletion of the cattle stocks, which have already decreased by 25 per cent. The Press hopes that all will submit without murmuring to the deprivation, which cannot possibly last long in Germany. '