HUNS' FOOD ORGANISATIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 1407, 1 June 1916, Page 3

HUNS' FOOD ORGANISATIONS

THE DICTATOR'S SCHEME.

ROTTERDAM, Slay 31

Berlin, messages state . that Hen* von Patocki, the Food Dictator, is carrying put the . organisation of food supplies with characteristic Prussian thoroughness. He is securing, inventories of food in. all private houses in the municipality of 'Berlin, and he has established 25,003 large kitchens to supply ' 620,000 persons daily. The price of a' meal is 35 -pf ennige. In other municipalities similar action has been taken.

Communal feeding wan originally intended for working-class districts, but many of the middle-class are in a sad plight, Avhich is causing an agitation Jn favor of the authorities feeding rich and poor in a uniform manner.

The German harvest', promises, to be .exceptionally poor. Prior to the war, 700,000 tons of nitrates were imported for agricultural purposes, but none has been used this year.

A private letter smuggled out of Germany says: "We are\all becoming vegetarians, and have only a' quarter of a ■pound', of- meat and two- e^gs each weekly. It sounds, dreadful, but vegetables are abundant, and asparagus is cheaper than ever. The fish supply is excellent, though , there is little butter or oil to cook them.