GERMANY'S INTERNAL STATE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16690, 21 July 1916, Page 5

GERMANY'S INTERNAL STATE.

AUTHORITIES MISLEADING THE

PEOPLE

FEAR Otf DEFEAT GROWING

AMSTERDAM, July 19. There are conflicting accounts of the internal conditions of Germany. Though the fear o|>»defeat is growing the authorities are making an intense' effort to prevent the public understanding the significance of the Somme offensive, and the public are being hypnotised by means _ of lying messages from newspapers in neutral countries., which are in German pay. There is a general impression amongtifc politicians that Prince Bulow is about to supersede Count yon jdollweg as Chancellor.

The food problem continues acute. Battacki failed to persuade the southern States to permit the exportation of foods in. order to secure equal distribution. The Prussian authorities strongly resent the action of the southerners.

Owing to the failure of kitchens on wheels, the problem of communal feeding in Berlin is being solved by huge public: dining halls. The first kitchen has 63 boilers, holding 20,000 litres of food. Hundreds of women are employed preparing meals, using electrical potato-cutting machines, ' gas stoves, and other labor-saving appliances. Specially constructed motor-cars carry the food to the distribution depots. The following is the week's biJl of fare: —Monday, rice and potatoes; Tuesday, :neat; Wednesday, beans and fat; Thursday, macaroni;; Friday, beans and potatoes; Saturd-ay, cabbages and potatoes; Sunday, minced meat and potatoes. A portion equal to a litre is sold at 4d, and 240,000 litres are sold daily in Berlin. The better class of people are willing to rub .shoulders with the humblest m the common dining halls.