FOOD PROFITEERING IN GERMANY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11417, 21 December 1917, Page 8

FOOD PROFITEERING IN GERMANY.

HADING BY MUNICIPALITIES. THE WORKERS CHEATED. Received Dec. 21, noon. London, Dec. 20. The Daily Chronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent reports that extraordinary food scmdals, revealed in Germany, have aroused general indignation. Practically every municipality in the country has been engaging in war profiteering in order to recoup themselves for war expenditure. It is claimed that the Government should have made good '"‘this expenditure, but It h-s other things to do with the money. So anuiy municipalities have been selling foodstuffs to munition workers and others at extortionate prices and thus made municipal balancesheets tolerable. Many Councils took the opportunity to help their friends, particularly their own employeees, who were given full rations of milk, potatoes and breid, while the public seems to ha’- e st rved. The Vorwaerts states that foodstaff’s were often sold at from five to a hundred per cent above the Government maximum xrrices.