GERMAN PLAN TO ECONOMISE FOOD.
BIG EMIGRATION TO NEUTRAL COUNTRIES. FIVE MILLION PERSONS ORDERED ABROAD. (Received February 19. 10.50 p.m.) London, February 19. ' It is reported in Copenhagen that owing to the necessity of re stricting food consumption, the German Government intends to order five million persons possessing independent means, but ineligible for military • service, to depart to neutral countries till the end of the war. It is proposed that three million should go to Scandinavia, and a million each to Holland and Switzerland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15849, 20 February 1915, Page 7
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84GERMAN PLAN TO ECONOMISE FOOD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15849, 20 February 1915, Page 7
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