The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-11-17
TEUTONS need FOOD
DRIVE INTO SERBIA TOWARDS
GRANARIES OF THE TURKS
CARD SYSTEM EXTENDED
Fight Against High Cost Of Living is
Serious Problem-Milk Cards Ont
Soon-Animal and Vegetable Oils
and Fats to be Confscateds by
Bundesrath Measure.

At recent caucus Of the National
Liberal members of the Reichstag i,
was resolved that the fight agafas,
the high cost OF living due to the wal
was at present the most important
question growing out of the conflic.
and that further measures should be
taken along the lines of the food
ordinances already put into effect.
The resolutions remand the intro
duction of meat cards; also the es-
tablishment of a far-reaching system
of leaves of absence for soldiers at
the front in order to maintain the
efficiency of the industrial trades
and Of the agriculture.
In addition, the sharpest punitive
measures against food speculations
were advocated, including the loss of
civic honors and the immediate in
PRODUCTION Of graduated taxes on war
profits was demanded. New milk
cards will be issued in many Berlin
boroughs on Nov. Is, and there is
official intimation that preparations
are being made for introducing meat
cards in the near future.
The Bundesrath has passed an al.
most revolutionary measure for the
confiscation by the State Of all stocks
Of animal and vegetable oils and fats
having food value, which will be dig
tributed and apportioned to the va
rious industries by the newly organ
lied State War Corporation, modelled
on the breadstuffs monopoly which
has functioned so successfully.
According to private adviees from
English sources Germany is making
an effort to get food from Turkey and
avail herself of the fertile plains Of
her Ottoman ally, but this her foes
regard as almost hopeless. Private
adVices from Greek sources, however
indicate that there is fighting
chance for help coming by way OF
Constantinople. The situation is one
which means atense struggle against
hunger and the reaching about in all
directions, for succor. - -. -.
A Greek merchant of New York
received adyices from Constantinople
Smyrna, and other points, said that
there was no doubt that Germany
would seize large granaries along the
Bosporus stored with wheat raised
in :Anatolia, and transport it through
Bulgarian and Roumanian territory
to Austria, and hence into the chief
centres of her own dominions.
Examination of official statistics
gathered by the United tSates show,
that the exports of Turkey in 1913
were s198,800,000,.. and that there
was an increase of: cereals and Eege-
tables. She normally imports $25,--
100000 worth sof cereals. chiefly
wheat and barley, and exports them
to the amount Of s17,000,000. Re-
cent Consular reports indicate that
she has no very great excess OF food
for the victualing Of Germany. Tur-
key in Europe, according to the re-
ports of 1914, sent to the United
States 500 bushels of beans and 463
bushels of onions and $4,000 worth
Of assorted vegetables
Here are some of the exports from
a typical port of Asai Minor, Beirut:
Dried apricots, barley, bran, corn,
flour, dried fruits, lemons, olive
stones, onions, peas, crushed wheat,
and wine dregs. -
The great dietary need Of Ger
many is fat. From Turkey she can
hardly expect to get much, for the
hog, reliable source of lard, is not
popular in the domain of the Sublime
Porte. Turkey does. however, export
a small quantity Of butter, and per-
haps she might help out also in pro-
viding fodder, the shortage OF which
has so curtailed the milk supply.
The effort to induce the fat mi
crobe to convert sugar into oil is an
other evidence Of the lengths to
which Germany had been pushed In
the effort. to get balanced ration
for her civil population. Perhaps
Greece and Turkey may help in that
regard.
Further evidences of the depletion
Of the larder of Germany are expect
ed to come from neutral countries,
such as Sweden, Norway, Denmark
and Holland, where according to in
formation received, many emf. les
have been sent to forage for >od
until the hoped-for supplies are OBJ
tained from Turkey. Z These advices
may be interpreted in the light OF q
special cable dispatch published sew
eral days ago, which referred to the
presence of many German buyers Of
foodstuffs in Amsterdam who were
purchasing all they could find and
putting it in storage waiting FOR or