Evening star., 1915-10-25
Supply Available Declared to
Be More Than Large Enough
for Coming Needs.
1915 CROP RETURNS BASIS
OF OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Under Secretary of State Says Record
Yield of Potatoes Has SIM
plifed Problem.

BERLIN, via London. October 25.-
The food supply situation in Germany.
based on the nearly complete 1915 crop
returns, which are declared to be- more
than large enough for coming needs, is
explained in n statement issued by Under
.Secretary of State Arnold Wahnschaffe
Eat the instance of DR.. Won Bethmann-
Hollweg, the imperial chancellor The
under secretary says:
Especially in the foreign press there
are appearing statements about a short
age of food. particularly milk. butter and
'meat, in Germany. They are intended
to show to the rest of the world that
.the starvation plan of our enemies is an
accomplished fact, that the Germans and
their cattle are hunger-striCken. and that
Germans want speedily to make peace
Economic Life Is Changed.
What is true in thise 1t is true that
our enemies have shut US off from i'm
portation. and seek to starve cut the
peaceful working population. Thereby
the entire economic life OF Germany has
changed. Trade relations have been al
tered. The old law of supply and de-
mand no longer controls the market as
in peace. Governmental regulation has
replaced this law in order to prevent too
high prices for he poor. We have in
Germany carried over so much from the
old harvest to the new that we are com
pelled 70 reduce the supply by 60, 000. GOO
hundredweights. which will be fed to the
cattle. We can do this because we are
now assured of TIE goodness and plenty
of our crop.
We had Il record potato crop such as
Germany since its foundation never had.
We had counted on a good harvest of
Fl, an
actually got ZOO 600. 900 hundre1weight
In addition, we had potatoes in excess
from occupied territory, which are offered
for sale there. We do not have to draw
on the inland at all for feeding our
armies Pork raising has taken an un-
dreamed Of impetus in the last nine
months, which was aided by the large
potato crop In short, we have what we
need i'll abundance.
Prices to Be Regulated.
'The reason for the activity anent
-Germanys inner conditions is that thes
government at present is engaged in
legalizing uniformly such measures as
already have been taken by individual
local authorities and military COM
.manders. The abundant potato crop
viii be apportioned out to the entire
empire through an imperial potato CEN
ter. Through the establishment of
ranged that this important food
stuff will surely and cheaply be dis
tributed to the civil population.
Butter prices will be regulated for
the empire by the rules for Berlin, pro-
mulgated by the chancellor. Maximum
prices will be set for milk. The needs
of children, ailing mothers and sick
will be specially cared for through
sales counters and special tickets. A
further regulation for the use of fat
butter is contempla. Led by fat-butter
cards. Measures also will be taken
whereby the poorer portion of the pop
ulation will be able to get meat at
cheap prices in sufficient quantities
through tickets or similar means To
accomplish this we shall be sparing of
meat fat In a few days we shall for
bid the sale of meat and frying with
fat in restaurants for several days a
week and SO regulate the consumption
that not only every one who can pay.
but all who need them will receive
bread, potatoes and all other foods"