HUNGER IN GERMANY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15182, 29 March 1917, Page 5

HUNGER IN GERMANY.

REPORTS AND DISCUSSIONS REFLECT GRAVE CONDITIONS.

In an editorial asserting that the#Ger■yians’ offer to open peace negotiations was ?nainly due to the fact that the German Government had recognised that something must be done to hold the people of the Empire in line, and prove it food outbreaks, the New' York Volksxeitung, in its issue of January 15, quoted an aged Socialist just arrived there from North Germany as saying:— r v , "I have found no one during the last year who did not look forward to peace with impatience. They all suffer so fearfnly, hunger is so general, that one hears the expression again and again—as I often heard—what difference does it make if we are ruled by a Russian, a French, or an English Government, if we are only able really to eat our fill cnee more?’ ’ ’ One of the outstanding features of the situation in Germany, according to reports reaching the Engish Press, isIhe conflict of ideas regarding the handling of the food question revealed in debates in the various provincial assemblies,. Baviria is especially jealous of its independence, and details found in the German Press regarding the resignation of two Bavarian Ministers and the President of the Council of Ministersi reported by cable early in December, seem to show that the trouble was caused—by their inability to reconcile Bavarian public opinion with the food regulations issued from Berlin. In the Prussian Diet there was recently a discussion about “special food allowances” proposed to be ’'granted to the big army of Prussian officials and civil employees. ..The Hessian central office for the control of milk in Darmstadt recently issued an edict forbidding the exportation of milk out of the Friedberg district to Prussia. A dispatch from Lorrach to the Berner Bund, says that since December .1 ) the price of milk in the 'Grand Duchy of Baden has been fixed at 9 cents a liter by a ministerial order and a-aystem of milk cards for the entire Duchy introduced. S.