MEAT FAME AT BERLIN.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5

MEAT FAME AT BERLIN.

WANTED. [I'HESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 11, 8.37 a.m.) BERLIN, 10th August. Owing to the meat famine twenty-six public meetings have been held at Berlin, and resolutions passed demanding the freer importation of cattle. According to advices received last, month the prices of meat at Berlin rose 25 per cent, in three months. Mr. Chamberlain in a recent speech at St. Helens said that sueb was the prosperity o£ the Geiman workmen that fewer and fewer were leaving their country for the United States, Canada, and other fields of emigration, and he denounced as "abominable falsehoods" statements that "tl.eso Germans are in the most wretched and unfortunate position ; that they live wholly on black bread and horse flesh." Writing in reply to this outburst a German freetrader in the Spectator says: — "Considerable numbers of working people in Germany have indeed to resort to horse flesh if they wish to eat meat at all, as any one can find out for himself by visiting a German town and counting the number of Ross-Schlachtereien, i.e., butchers who sell nothing but horse flesh Not so long ago a horse-flesh restaurant was opened in Berlin, with a view of persuading the population that by savoury cooking dishes of horse flesh could be made as palatable as those" of any other meat. As to the black or rye bread, it is perfectly true that it forms the staple food, white bread being consumed only in small rolls, and in«most parts of Germany not baked in loaves at all."