GADARENE SWINE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 5

GADARENE SWINE.

GERMANY’S HEADLONG FLIGHT. MUST GIVE UP THE STRUGGLE. LONDON, January 20. A letter which, ban reached London by, way of Cologne states that the economic situation is growing. The downhill pace is increasing, and fresh deterioration is visible weekly. The people privately confess that Germany is faced with the prospect of giving up the struggle un lees raids are made on Denmark and Holland for food. There are no cases of starvation. Babies under two years of ago get sufficient niilk, except in mu, nition ai'eas, where milk is made into glycerine. Many babies and invalids have been taken to Switzerland and Holland. The rich are not suffering. The poor complain bitterly. Recently there have been numerous disputes between the town and country authorities, but the Germanic docility is still wonderful. The leather famine is- serious. Military effects and boots are most difficult to obtain. Sometimes great fights occup- out-side-the boot shops. The bread recently improved, but now old, sodden potatobread is sold. Chocolate costs £1 per lb. Oysters- from Ostend are a great luxury. .■■■■■ ■■.■■■■ The railways are disorganised owing to the shortage of coal, due to labour difficulties. Women - workers dress in neat knickerbockers. Russian and French prisoners areVconetrueting neW railways and buildings. The diet of the soldiers has decreased. Men from the Somme, which is . known as , “the grave/' complain about not getting enough oily substances. Military bands are everywhere, but the military spirit is dead. > . “In cities I have Netted,” the letter concluded, “the only comfort the people get is the belief that the prices-and the scarcity of fooi are worse in France, Britain, and Russia than ra. Germany/'