South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-16
FROM A GERMAN NEWSPAPER.

many is a great deal closer to utter
exhaustion than anyone who reads
English alone would believe.
Danzig is a seaport town Of several
hundred thousand population near the
Russian frontier. The news one gets
out Of 1t is not its war kilograms and
official reports but the grass-root stuff
that comes right from the people
themselves. in the local and neigh
boring news.
A doctor wrote to the newspaper
saying that the war bread" in Danzig
smelled evilly and tasted badly and
that It was almost fatal 70 the persons
suffering from stomach trouble and
that he believed the baking was at
fault The following day a patient
followed this up saying that he could
not touch the rye war bread and that
on the white" rolls he had 10 strip
of the leather-like hull and then con-
tent himself with eating few crumbs
inside.
The newspaper called attention to
the fact that thousands of blackber-
ries were growing wild in the country.
dwelt upon the value of this fruit and
gave some recipes.
a market woman sold two litres Of
potatoes for 35 cents. She was hned
80 marks and sent TO Jail for 16
days because the governments fixed
price was two litres for 10 cents. The
police sold her potatoes at that price.
An army proclamation called upon
all those who previously had been
condemned as permanently unfit for
military service to report for duty.
Those declared "pern anently unfit"
for garrison service We're specifically
mentioned as not being exempt from
this call. The only exemptions were
thoce pronounced permanently un.
At" as the result of the present war.
A government proclamation an
nounced the seizure OF all the wool in
the country. including wooden manu-
features and also the wool still on the
backs of the sheep for the 1915-1916
crop.
A similar proclamation seized fcr
the government all cloth of whatever
color suitable for military uniforms
providing it had a certain weight per
meter.
The Danzig Kennel club held it's
regular meeting and the acting presi-
dent spoke of the troublous times
lovers Of dogs were having and of the
grim difficulties attending the choice
between pet dogs and dogs Of use. In
feeding the dogs he said the high
price of meat made meat entirely out
OF question. in these days when
everyone held O bread card and knew
the regulations it was unnecessary for
him to refer TO their effect upon dogs.
in these dark days, however. there
was a CLEAN of hope in the fact that
several thousand dogs hcd done good
service with the armies and that con-
sequently higher prices might be look
ed for eventually for trained dogs.
The Danzig city council made a
second appropriation of 10000 marks
for the purpose of aiding tenants to
pay their rents There was sharp
criticism of the municipal authori-
ties IN having forced landlords in a
previous distribution of similar funds
10 make concessions on rents them
selves, and the council instructed the
authorities "in general not TO call
upon the landlords for concessions.
An advertisement offers TO propri-
etors of farms some sort OF fodder"
ut so-and-so much per cwt for the
use Of war prisoners. Many news
items indicate that the war prisoners
are making a great hit with many
German girls and women, and there
were probably half dozen cases
where girls or women were hailed be-
.or a judge and sentenced for their
relations with prisoners. One nigh
school girl got three days in jail be-
cause she wrote 10 a French profess
sor whose acquaiutanceship she made
while in a prison camp, and after he
had been transferred 10 another camp
that she hoped TO meet him after the
war in France
The government proclamation seiz-
ing all rubber and rubber manufac-
lures including automobile tires with
metal treads was interesting. II you
want TO buy an auto tire or inner tube
in Germany these days. YOU have "a
write TO the imperial high commits
sioner OF rubber matters in Berlin.
In connection with the necessity OF
keeping up the gold supply in the
Reichs-3 Bank a circular letter was sent
70 all the Lutheran raetOrs b,- their
ecclesiastical superiors. telling them
that some people probably through ig-
norance are undoubtedly Withholding
gold which would be OF much greater
value IL IL were IN the treasury Of the
empire They are asked 20 exert
themselves 10 get these hidden pieces
OF gold into the treasury and specific
mention Is made OF the small sums OF
money il is Customary among the