COMBATANTS' FOOD SUPPLY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16502, 30 March 1917, Page 5

COMBATANTS' FOOD SUPPLY

. GERMAN ADMISSION. PREVIOUS OVER-ESTIMATE. ENCROACHING ON RESERVES. A. and N.Z. Cable. AMSTERDAM, March 28. Herr Batocki, tho German Food Dictator, informed tho Reichstag Committee that the food supplies - had been overestimated. He declared that tho increases in other rations had not compensated for the reduction in bread, but that no other solution was possible. He added; " The shortage of pigs also compels encroaching on our reserves of cattle, while it is impossible to incrcaso the production of 'ood owing to labour arid transport not b»nng available." Twenty-six sugar factories in Bohemia have been closed owing to a shortago of beetroot.

EFFECT OF SUBMARINES. LORD BERESFORD'S VIEW. WORLD FAMINE APPROACHING LONDON, March 08. In tlio Houso of Lords to-day Lord Beresford said that he did not think that/ the raptures of submarines were equivalent to the German output of new boat£ Ho predicted a world famine during the next three years, and said he believed the Germans had more men and food than was imagined. Tho Foreign Office had too much power over the navy. Britain was very much blockaded. The losses of British and the allied nations and neutrals in February totalled 281 vessels of 505,000 tons, while in March to date 255 vessels of 420,000 tons had been sunk. The losses would be worst in the longer days and calmer weather. Lords Hylton, Emmotfc, and Lansdowne emphasised that it was impossible to blockade neutrals unless the allies were prepared to go to war with thtfm. NO ARGENTINE WHEAT. EMBARGO IN FORCE. LONDON, March 28. It is officially announced from Buenos Aires that the embargo on the exportation of wheat will become effective tomorrow.