GERMAN FOOD SUPPLIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 9 July 1917, Page 5

GERMAN FOOD SUPPLIES

OPTIMISTIC REPORT TO REICHSTAG.

(Received July 9, 8.50 a.m.)

AMSTERDAM, July 8

Yon Boekir, president of the War Supplies Department, informed the Reichstag Committee that while June and July were the most critical months the danger of a reduced bread rajtion was past, and ho was hopeful of being able to increase it early in August, when meat rations w>uld be reduced in order to conserve mi?.-ch cows. Prospects for the potato crop were better than in 1916.