STARVATION OF GERMANY.
NEW YORK, August 27. American arriving here from Germany declare* that food conditions are practically On a famine basis m that country, and that the German people are perilously near actual starvation.
Mr William Bartholomew, general superintendent of the Dutch Pure Oil Company at Hamburg, who landed at an American port yesterday, says that during the last few months of, his residence at Hamburg he lost fifty, pounds weight, owing to deficient and unwholesome food
Mr Axel Bahnsen, the representative of an American harvester company m Germany, returned with/ Mr Bartholomew. He lost thirty pounds owing td insuflicien|i.and improper food. He says: "Tlie principal food supplies are sent to the. soldiers, while civilians are stinted to the point of ; starvation. The robust are able to stand this for some timei but the aged and invalids and children suffer and) die. Everything and everybody must be sacrificed to the army. German economic conditions are so hopeless that it is impossible that Germany can hold out against the Allies.''
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14448, 7 November 1917, Page 3
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