TO INDUCE LENIENCY.
PLENTIFUL FOOD SUPPLIES. (Received 5.50.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. Germany's attempt to create a sham famine stir, and thus obtain leniency from thu Allied countries, i. ; ; exposed in semi-official diplomatic advices, revealing- that there Is adequate, though limited, food in • Germany. Cereals are plentiful enough to permit increasing- the daily bread ratio;! to five hundred grammes. The sug.u , stocks exceed the need.-:, ol" peacetime, and potatoes are plentiful, ihe Food administration ofiicials ridicule Germany's attempt to stampede the Allies into sending abundant supplies of food to Germany, which boasted of ability to feed itself for another year. ...•;.: has more cattle than in peace time.—Reuter,
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Northern Advocate, 6 December 1918, Page 3
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