GERMANY’S FOOD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3871, 6 March 1915, Page 8

GERMANY’S FOOD.

BREAD SHORTAGE

RIGID RESTRICTION S

By the official regulations Germany is to have no more, morning rolls, ba/kers must not work at night, good flour must not be sprinkled on the baking-hoards to help the bakers ( to roll arid knead the dough, and Germans may only indulge twice a week in their much-beloved cake (writes the London “Daily Chronicle” correspondent at Rotterdam). Probably they will not complain, for the- Kaiser, it is announced, eats nothing but K or waiv bread, and what is good enough for h is “All-Highness” is good enough tor stay-at-home civilians. 'Pile socialists, it seems from the German papers, appear convinced that they will snatch a little advantage from the situation which the stress or war has brought about. They hope that night work in the bakeries will never be revived. But tile little bakers fear that disaster awaits them. They sav, according to the “Xorodeutsche Allgemaine. Zeituiig,” that xho housewives when shopping at night- will buy some of the wildest; bread they can get lor the breakfasttable, and that this will be Lie product not of the small bakeries but oi the large ones. , ... According to the regulations winch 1 1 live been drawn up, it is now forbidden to take absolutely pure wheat or rye bread. Wheat bread nf.ust contain at least 30 per cent, of flour, while wheat flour may, m audition be still further adulterated up to 20 per cent, by potato flour. Even oi adulterated white bread the loaves must not exceed one-fifth of a- pound, and rye bread must not be sold witling twentv-four hours of its having, been baked. The restriction of eakeybakIII" to twice a week will, it is pointed out, allow of its being regulated. STALE BREAD THE BEST! Police officers and experts have been authorised to sec that these new laws, ■which are obviously the result of tin. recent inquiry into the gram supply in Germany/ are. stringently earner out Thev can seize samples oi 'Mead an v where "and atony time wnen i - laws come fully into force on the lon hist. The mills are to be cmnpelM to grind at least SO per con,, of the grain into wheat and rye horn a st-a'e bread has to be doctored ai d sold as new, ami oidy hopoles.d spoiled bread may be sold an caU.e food, which was formerly the destination of almost all stale German cream But we have it- on authority cl ti. •• V-igemoine Zedong’ that rye bmaci tastes best when not altogether ivesh. The "Xiemve Roiterdamsche tomant” states that a meeting or agneu - turists. millers, and baiters has been held at Essen, m Germany, to consider the “'critical position winch has arisen owing to the scarcity or the available -mm. on the German corn markets.” The German papers state that the priced wheat has risen svatx the last orient were pubfished /rom •200 to 310 marks, and that or from 220 to 260 marks. Regarding copper and even iron, the Germans have adopted a /’.’//Y plan, whereby they can,still da tradwith, the Dutch and neutral nations without depleting the metal supply m their own country. A. Dutch him has just been informed t.iat tne chinery they have ordered is fining at tlie Dutch frontier, and ’-'*ll >- sent over as soon as tne firm supplies in old material quantities of metaequivalent- to >ncs“ used m the manufacture of tne machinery. “FIVE O'CLOCK TEA.” The Germans have compromised regarding tlie -5 o'clock tea habit, winch they borrowed from England. Lw other continental nations tney kenthe English name for the aiternoon beverage-drinking, but it has now neon sohnenjv decided that, though the habit may still be retained, notwithstanding the source ot its originit is in future to be known as 'lunU Jn Berlin volunteers of 18 years, of age, and oft Tin in height are being asked to join the Second boot Guards. The Sluis correspondent of tne “Nieuwe Rottevdamsche Couranf states that a Heyst o-entleman has been permitted to take a trip into Belgium to see the condition or his villa He round that German officers who were using the public rooms or his house, had dropped the lighted ends of their e.gars and cigarettes on the floor, and burned numerous holes in the carpet- Some soldiers had made pocket-money for themselves bv selling to Belgians coals from one- or iiis friend’s cellars . This correspondent heard that- Germans still employ people to dig narrow trenches round Antwerp. These are probably mines, for they are filled up during tlie night, and people i are forbidden afterwards to go near ! them. _____