FOOD SITUATION

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13275, 2 September 1916, Page 7

FOOD SITUATION

GERMAN MASS-FEEDING FAILS. CROWDS MOB 'GOULASH CANNONS.' THE HAGUE, July 7 (via New York), July 8). —During a debate on the food situation at the Thursday evening session of the Berlin City Council, the Socialists complained of the inequality and inadequacy of the distribution of tood under the mass-feeding scheme. Cr Mommsen declared that no resident of Berlin was yet starving. This elicited a sharp contradiction. Municipal Physician Weber maintained there was 110 question of underfeeding yet. Cries of strong dissent from the Socialists greeted this statement. The Socialist Councillor Hoffmann said that lie himself had been a patient it the Rudolph Yirchow Hospital for months and knew how seriously the dietary had been reduced. Herr Hoffmann demanded that President von Batocki of the Food Regulation Board, should be told that sufficient food was available, but that the method of distribution was all wrong, and that the residents of Berlin would stand it no longer. The population of Cologne is excited over the municipality's announcement that mass feeding has been postponed indefinitely, some say for six weeks, owing to the lack of potatoes. The so(ailed goulash-cannon travelling kitchens are entirely insufficient and are besieged from early morning by crowds of angry persons, while housewives go dinnerless, the Yorwaerts says.