GERMAN FOOD PROBLEM

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13388, 16 January 1917, Page 5

GERMAN FOOD PROBLEM

POTATO CROP A FAILURE. ALLEGATIONS OF GRAFT AND EXTORTION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January IG, 8.40 a.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The New York Times says that, coupled with the admission of the practical failure of the Gtfman potato crop, come reports of gross mismanagement of the Food Bureau with graft and extortion, indicating that, despite the food spoils from Roumania the Empire is ii most acute food problem. CHANGED GERMAN ATTITUDE. NO LONGER ARROGANT AND BOASTFUL. STRIKING EVIDENCE OF POVERTY (Australian arirl N.Z. CsMp Assn.) Received January 16, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 10. Civilians who have arrived in England from Germany state that the conditions at the Ruhleben internment camp have been improved. The Germans are no longer «rrogrant and boastful. while Germany's poverty is strikingly revealed by the changed attitude of the children, who wore formerly insolent. but who now linger outside the compound, and eagerly snatch particles of food the English prisoners throw out.