GADARENE SWINE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4459, 29 January 1917, Page 3

GADARENE SWINE.

GERMANY’S HEADLONG FLIGHT

MUST GIVE UP THE STRUGGLE

LONDON. Jan. 20

A: letter which has reached London by way of Cologne states that the economic situation is growing. The downhill pace is increasing, and fresh deterioration is visible weekly. The people privately confess that Germany is faced with the prospect of giving np the struggle unless raids are made on Denmark and Holland for food. There are no cases of starvation. Banies under 2 get sufficient milk, except in munition areas, where milk is made into glycerine.© Many babies and invalids have been taken to Switzerland and Holland. The rich are not suffer” ing. The poor complain bitterly. Recently there have been numerous disputes between the town and country authorities, but the Germanic docility is still wonderful. The leather famine is serious. Military effects and boots are most dfficult to obtain. Sometimes great, fights occur outside the boot shops. The bread recently improved, but now old, sodden potatobread is sold. Chocolate costs ail a pound. Oysters from Gstend are a great luxury. The railways are disorganised owing to the shortage of coal, due to labor difficulties. Women workers dress in neat knickerbockers. Russian and French prisoners are constructing new railways and buildings. The diet of the soldiers has decreased. Men from the Somme, which is known as “the grave.” complain about not getting enough oily substances. Military bands are everywhere, but the military spirit is dead. “In cities T have visited,” the letter concluded, “the onlv comfort the people get is the belief that_ the prices ai d the scarcity of food is worse m France, Britain, and .Russia than in Germany.”