AS DENMARK SEES FOOD CONDITIONS IN GERMANY.
LONDON. June 5. From Copenhagen comes this account of the present food conditions m Germany. It is said to represent 'the position.exactly: — ' Fat and margarine are impossible to get, and a " makeshift for margarine— something like cartgrease — is sold .at 2s for. 'half a kilo (Ljlb). ... Coffee of the poorest quality is 4s the half kilo, • tea 55., cocoa 9s, chocolate 4s, and butter 8s to 4s, but of the latter only one-eighth of a kilo (about 4£oz) is allowed . eafeh person . weekly. • ' .-'"'■'( - ' One thousand two hundred and fifty grammes (about 2Jlb) of war bread is allowed weekly per head, but the quality is now very bad and indigestible, and the majority of people suffer froni stomach troubles. In some of the pro vincial towns they only grind straw for making bread. The scarcity of potatoes has greatly increased, and a Mayor from a small town travelled throughout Germany seekim; after sufficient potatoes for his* people, . but m vain. Pork and rice ( are unobtainable,' While beef is 3s to 4s per half kilo. Barley and groats are Is 6d. and green and brown soap 2s per half kilo. The scarcity of sugar is increasing daily. '-. ! -i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14048, 19 July 1916, Page 3
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