EVERYTHING SCARCE BUT BEER.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2462, 2 October 1914, Page 3

EVERYTHING SCARCE BUT BEER.

Milan, August 10. The early approach of famine in Germany is predicted by the Berlin correspondent of the Secolo, who writes as. follows: "At this moment Germany is surrounded by a ring ot iron, for the only frontier remaining open to her so long as Italian neutrality may last is ours, and we are unable to supply her with all she needs. Her store of gram, mostly imported from Russia, is diminishing rapidly. Her cattle even now barely suffice for her wants. The supply of eggs is not enough to last another week. There is plenty of beer, it is true, but on beer chiefly it is difficult to subsist. Germany is a country that lives on credit. No German has saved money. All have spent £2 10s a month in excess of their incomes, and when credit comes to an end, as it will very soon, how are those who reside m the cities going to live?"