CENTRAL POWERS
SI EALING RELIEF FOOD. ("The Times.") Received 10.40 p.m., March 29tft. LONDON, March 28. Mr Whitaker states that the Germans hampered food 'supplies which the American Relief Commission sent to Roubaix, intercepting several train loads and substituting German ' rye flour with thirty per cent, of sawdust, for American flour, producing an indigestible putty-like substance, causing such illness and so many deaths that the" grave diggers were unable to dig sufficient graves*
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16232, 30 March 1917, Page 7
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73CENTRAL POWERS Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16232, 30 March 1917, Page 7
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