GERMANY.
THE FOOD OUTLOOK.
[“ THE TIMES.”] London, Oct. 25.
Mr. Curtin, the American journalist who has just returned from Germany, says that Germany continually evades the blockade and is obviously importing fat. There are thousands of barrels on her quaysides. There is no tea drinking, but the Germans are drinking cocoa and chocolate in large quantities. Cattle stocks are four-fifths their pre-war figures, and pigs have diminished 75 per cent, owing to the indiscriminate slaughterings in 1915. The authorities are now insisting on universal pig breeding, and are posting rural notices that not to keep and fatten pigs is treason to the Fatherland.
The food rationing is badly organised, dearth and plenty alternating in different districts. The ticket system was arranged on the assumption of speedy victory and the war finishing in 1915, which led to reckless consumption and increased prices. The system will probably be reorganised to meet the coming winter’s distress.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 266, 26 October 1916, Page 5
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