GERMANY’S DESPERATE HUNGER.
MAY FORCE CAPITULATION
(Australian The Daily Chronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent states that an Ameitcan who has just left Germany, where he resided throughout the war, states that after the Kiel and Leipzig, food riots the soldiers refused to hit oi the rioters. This is considered a ions symptom, and led to tin. appo in Gilt of ft Food Dictatoi. v The farmers are still holding-stocks in expectation of a rise m pnees. Any attempt to comply with the sinfender of hidden stocks cota» £ ternal dissension. He expected a sis at the end of March oi ea y Mav when the masses will be tetiuc ed to a condition of further endurance. It is possible that the soMiers vnll be forced to yield stores to feed the uni "There is no fear yet of military defeat, but desperate hunger will ioice capitMartion. Po Sere°“a : e bitter complaints at the *vz s sss the lower and middle classes may rejoin & bed for the better part or the day to save (food, clothes and shoes, and- to prevent them collapsing from starvation. •'
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4476, 17 February 1917, Page 5
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181GERMANY’S DESPERATE HUNGER. Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4476, 17 February 1917, Page 5
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