FOOD SITUATION IN GERMANY
MUCH MORE SERIOUS THAN BELIEVED. OUTPUT OF BREAD REDUCED. (Received February 2, 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, 31st January. Berlin municipalities have ordered the bakers to reduce the output of bread by one-fourth. The Cologne municipality has forbidden the manufacture of wheaten bread except under doctor's prescription. Rye bread is obligatory. Several German newspapers declare that the food situation is much more serious than people believe. An Austrian decree limits flour and rye in bread to one-half, the remainder to be barley, rice, potatoes, or other substitutes. ROME, 31st January. A decree abolishes the frontier duty on cereals and flour, and reduces the railway freights thereon; also maritime freights on subsidised lines, and empowers the Government to regulate the sale,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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122FOOD SITUATION IN GERMANY Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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