STATEMENT BY HERE BATOCKI.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

STATEMENT BY HERE BATOCKI.

SECRET SLAUGHTER OF PIGS.

MEAT FAMINE DUE IN JULY.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received May .9, 7 p.m.) London, May 8

A Berne wireless message states that Here- Batoeki, reporting to the Food Committee of the Reichstag, -stated that apart from pigs kiUed.tinder offi-cial-sanction, 5,400,000 inclined in the last census Lad absolutely disappeared. This was due to secret slaughter ,by the owners. The meat ration involved a slaughter ATihieh was calculated' to creat a meat famine after July, but the bread and other rations could then be increased. .