CANINES AND CATS EATEN IN BELGIUM.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14658, 16 July 1918, Page 6

CANINES AND CATS EATEN IN BELGIUM.

DOGS ALMOST LUXURY, SAYS PROF. CARNOY.

n , WASHINGTON, June I, Professor Albert J. Carney, of the university of J7ouvaine, now attached to the Belgian Legation here, said that, dog meat is almost a luxury m Belgium, and that cats also are being slaughtered for the table. Old people and children are dying m large numbers, and tuberculosis is rapidly spreading. Professor Carney says .-—"Coffee is very scarce m Belgium and is not obtainable under £1 a pound. Eggs sell at 16d each. To preserve, however, that kind of food so badly needed hv the invalid, now so numerous m Belgium, the works of rescue provide a low price food for the hens. Swiss cheese is obtainable at 12s a pound. Chocolate sells at 16s a pound and cocoa at ,*fe.W. 01 »ye oil is 451 12s a bottle. ■■ .'This situation has incited to the discovery of numerous substitutes. A severe test has been applied to imitation products and all that was harmful has betn pitilessly excluded. What is more interesting to record is the use of strawberry leaveß instead of tobacco, jof syrup instead of butter, "Moreover, all kinds of native fruits, genraily neglected, have now a market value. Dog roses bring 3d a pound, wjjd hazel nuts cost 10d, with prunes 2d, elderberries 4d, etc. The Germans have regulated the exploitation of acorns and beechnuts, of which they send great quantities to Germany m order to extract oil from them. "They also have commandeered fat cats m many places. Since a tax of £1 4s has been imposed by them upon dogs the number of those animals which their owners have killed and eaten is large". Dog meat is said t© be commonly vi©d,' r