HUNGER'S CLIMAX.
FOOD SGA RC ITY, IN .BERLIN
A STATE OF DESPERATION
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
(Press A^sn. —Reed. 8.15 p.m.)
LONDON, December 11
The "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent says .that the Berlin newspaper "Tagliche Rundschau" is publishing desperate, and almost threatening, articles on Berlin's foodless plight: One article says. that the scarcity has reached a climax. The supply of bread for weeks past, in one part of the city or the other, is failing constantly. Fish is now one of the most important foods, but no fresh fish is available, and the price of smoked fish is six-fold that of the normal. Apples alone are obtain, able in reasonable quantities. Small cauliflowers are selling at Is 10d apiece. The writer urges the seizure of all the ißerlin stocks of food for sale to the people direct. He emphasises the growing popular belief that, the Government is behind these difficulties, hoping to make the people, agree more readily to a communal feeding Bj'stem. ..... - - ■
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Northern Advocate, 13 December 1916, Page 3
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