FOOD PROBLEM IN GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14140, 17 July 1916, Page 6

FOOD PROBLEM IN GERMANY.

REVELATIONS IN SOLDIERS'

LETTERS.

TICKETS FOR EVERYTHING

THE SPECTRE OF STARVATION

•(Australian and N.S. Cable Association)

LcnUon, July 14

Mr Philip Gibbs, the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent in Northern France, wires that Germany's food policy is "Soldiers first." .Prisoners' letters disclose increasing hardships. A woman wrote: "You reproach me for not writing. If I told the truth, about the conditions here I would be locked up. There are tickets for everything— flour, sausage, sugar, and soup."

Another woman wrote: "England is not so wrong about starving us. If the war lasts another three months we will be done. Gcd is punishing us overseverely. We have had no meat for six weeks. We are all on the downward path. Riot continue in the markets, where even people with money are unable to buy anything."

Mr Gibbs comments: "There is onlyone satisfaction in these pitiful letters, namely, the hope that the devil at the back of the business will realise that war does not pay, and haul down the • flag with the -skull and croslbones."