TIGHT BELTS IN GERMANY

Southland Times, Issue 23736, 7 February 1939, Page 7

TIGHT BELTS IN GERMANY

Acute Shortage Of Some Commodities

COMPLAINTS LEAD TO ARRESTS

DEMOCRACIES BLAMED BY NAZI OFFICIAL (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received February 6, 10.50 p.m.) BERLIN, February 6. The economic journal Volkswirt gives a warning that the acute shortage of butter, cooking fats, eggs, meat and coffee throughout Germany might extend to other commodities. The journal admits that the queues are reawakening painful memories, and adds that because of variations in the import quotas it might not be possible to maintain supplies at the 1938 level. The police arrested two men and two women for complaining of inability to obtain coffee. The Reich Commissioner for Austria (Herr Josef Buerckel), addressing a Nazi mass meeting, admitted that there was grumbling against the Government because of the shortage of food, but exculpated the Government by declaring that the fault lay at the door of the hostile democracies, whose threat of war compelled the production of guns instead of butter.