FOOD SHORTAGE IN GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14407, 18 May 1917, Page 5

FOOD SHORTAGE IN GERMANY.

GIFTS TO THE ARMY PROHIBITED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

(Received May 17, 5.5 p.m.)

London, May 16

The Press Bureau states that a Ger>man divisional' order captured on the West front says the rations of the troops are ample, and warns relatives not to send them food, as there is already a shortage in the interior.