SHORT OF FOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1935, Page 10

SHORT OF FOOD

GERMANY'S PLIGHT

WORK OF SABOTEURS

RUTHLESS CzOIPAIGN

United-' Press Association--li.v Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ■ (Received December 23, 2 p.m.) BERLIN, December 22. "The Times" Berlin. correspondent stales that the secret police have warned farmers throughout Germany that they will, on General Goering's instructions, ruthlessly proceed against food saboteurs. ■ , . The campaign is aimed to prevent farmers, who are discontented with the fixed milk prices, withholding supplies in order to make butter which they will sell privately at scarcity prices, thus defeating the elaborate marketing regulations introduced to distribute available fats fairly, especially in order to feed the cities. j So-called "black marketing" persists in other foods of which there is a shoi*lage, despite daily arrests and the imprisonment of profiteers. Probably the farmers' resistance to compulsory marketing explains the poor Christmas food outlook, although imports of food are increasing. Eggs are especially short, and only from two to four ounces of butter are purchasable at a time. Lard y has almost disappeared, and bacon is'sold four ounces at a time. Ham and pork are difficult j to get. There is no shortage of other I meats, but' the prices are overhigh for workers, as the butchers refuse to sell the cheaper kinds, such as mince meats and sausages, at fixed prices. The Jewish-owned firm of Simson and Company, manufacturers of rifles, saddles, perambulators, and machine parts, has been forced .to repay alleged excessive profits by the transfer of the works to the State, accompanied by a payment of several million marks. Nazi controllers distributed a thousand perambulators to needy families. The Reichsbank has sacrificed 6,000.000 marks of gold reserves to pay for food imports, but many thousands are making bread and potatoes their staple diet and substituting jam, which is cheaip and plentiful, for butter. If there is insufficient money.to buy food, it is because, the capital- expenditure on re-armament to create work is swallowing too much of the national income. ■■-■'.