GERMANY FEELS PINCH OF BLOCKADE

Waikato Times, Volume 86, Issue 13103, 10 February 1916, Page 5

GERMANY FEELS PINCH OF BLOCKADE

LIMITATION OF RETAIL PURCHASES. MEEK AND MEAT CONSUMPTION REDUCED. RENEWED FOOD RIOTS IN BERLIN.—SHOPS PLUNDERED. LONDON, Eebi'nary 9. Striking evidence oi the extent to which Germany is feeling the blockade js the imposition oi a new set of economic regulations empowering the Government to take control oi the whole products of the German textile industries, stringently regulating retail sales to one article to each customer a day. Accompanying these sensational measures are semi-official assurances that there is no scarcity of raw materials, but that they are merely precautionary. Inspired article-, in the Press soothingly seek to allay public alarm, quoting the Times economic articles as a proof that England has adhered to the Gorman economic conduct or the war. and asking, "Shall England's patriotism shame Germany?"* The Government has also iurther restricted the production of beer, which is now -IS per cent, oi the normal, and has inaugurated two meat fast days a week, reducing the soldiers' meat allowance to..avoid the ruinous depletion of cattle stocks, which have already decreased 2"> per cent. The Press hopes that all will submit without murmuring to the deprivation. Received Fcruary P. 9.3(3 p.m. AMSTERDAM. Februarv 9. Renewed teed i lets have occurred in the Moabit district of Berlin. The police charged and wounded many. Similar trouble occurred at Ac-hen. whore the police were powerless. A number of butchers' shops were plundered.