IN GERMANY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14579, 1 June 1916, Page 6

IN GERMANY.

SCARCITY OF FOOD.

Press Association-Electric T_egraph-Oopyright ROTTER DAM, Wednesday. Berlin messages state that Ilerr yon Batooks is carrying out the organisation * 'Prussian thoroughness He is securing ''inventories of food from all private houses. The municipality of Berlin has established twenty-five large kitchens, and supply 620,000 persons daily. The price of a meal is .-1 pfennig. Other municipalities are taking similar action. * Communal feeding as originally intended in the working class districts has left many of the middle class m a sad plight, Avhich is causing an agita:u . in favour of the authorities feeding the rich aud poor in a uniform manner. Tho German harvest promises to be exceptionally poor. Prior to the Avar 700,000 tons of nitrates were imported for agricultural purposes. None were used this year.

A private letter smuggled out of German v says:— *'V\e are all becoming vegetarians. Only a quarter of a pound of "meat and two eggs each weekly sounds dreadful, but vegetables are abundant, and asparagus is cheaper than ever. The fish supply is excellent, although there is little butter or oil to cook them. Berlin participates in a. much joy as ever. All the racecourses are active. Everybody except the olhcials are utterly Aveary of the Avar. Germans cannot understand why the Allies persist. This week we are all bella.gged on account of the defeat of Italy, which is supposed to have finished them all. Tho good news, however, does not affect the desire Io end the Avar. The belief is universal that Germany will have a victorious peace before the Avinter. It is reported that forty-seven Zeppelins have been lost since the beginning of the war. Twenty-one submarines wore turned out of one factory during the last- eight months."