APPROACHING FAMINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

APPROACHING FAMINE.

LETTERS FROM GERMANY.

The following letters were found on a German Uldan who was taken prisoner by the British force in Greece:—

From his father, Brunswick, April 18: — " We should have sent you before this a parcel, but the situation is so bad here that you cannot imagine what it is, and wo can only send you a few eggs- Everything is rationed now; even the potatoes ; one has nothing, and everybody else is the same."

From his mother, Brunswick, March 10:—" One now has great trouble in buying, no matter what it is. Things are very bad, and everything is very expensive." From his sister, Brunswick, April 15: —• "1 should like to send you something, but, unfortunately, here one gets nothing but marmalade and honey. If the war lasts much longer we shall be reduced to famine. We now have to obtain cards for potatoes; it is a long time since I have been able to get butter. One cannot even get one's boots soled, because there is no leather."

From his fiancee:—"Life is terrible here Everything is very expensive. They saj that we shall have no meat for the" next six weeks. Potatoes and sugar are rationed nowin fact, everything else as well. We shall soon have a famine. Beef costs 4s per pound, and a quarter pound of sausage more than Is. and even at that price it is hard to get"