The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-10
GERMANY FAR FROM
 BEING STARVED OUT
Only Precautionary Meas
 ures Have Been Taken
WILLING TO SUFFER
Will Endure Any Privation in Defense of Their Glorious" kultur. Scarcity of Rubber Is
 Most Alarming
Ny FREDERIcK WERNER

Berlin May 15--t Special)--1n spite of all difficulties. Germany Is farther from being starved into submission than any of her adversaries think It sounds alarming when they begin ex- perimenting making milk from weed and meat from hay and straw. and when the people, as in Sehleswig, are told 10 live on soy beans
 There are many things that are in bad shape grain. potatoes. and other articles of food War bread is a mls- erable fare and the cakes which are still exhibited in the bakers windows look as they did in time of peace. but are made from potato flour
 The well o-do who can afford good cooking do not feel the misery vel, Tor 1t IS the most expensive articles of food that have gone up least in price. In the Berlin restaurants you may get dinner for 30 cents consisting of turtle soup. lobster, roast veal and des- sert
 But when the outside world is led to think the situation is growing worse and that each new rescript is a rroor supplies are running still lower anl the wolf Is at the door, such idea $ co not agree with these thai are aroused among the German people by these precautions. In Germany every new regulation is taken as proof of the government being awake not as a testimony of threatening peril, but as sign of timely caution
 Russian Prisoners Buoy Up Germans
 What perhaps moro than anything buoys up the German mind under the present conditions and gives confidence in Germany's strength and hope of her final victory, are the mighty rivers of Russian prisoners that are necessarily moving along all high roads of north ern Prussia
 Large districts are being gradually transformed into little Russias wth a Slav population clad in rags and con fined within stockades and barbed wire fences.
 The following editorial in the Wiser 1nspektions Bote shows how determined the German people are to suffer all kinds of privations rather than give in.
 We may have to kill all our cattle, " the paper says. We may have to do without milk butter and cheese. but it does not matter. We will submit to any rule laid down by the government that manages our stock of provisions. We will do this without murmur and be content with the meagre share that is given us
 but We Will do even more than this for our country. A patriotic German has suggested that we fast one day week Our soldiers often have to go without food more than a day a week. but we do not need to go as far as that. Let us merely take a solemn vow to econo- mize as far as possible in the use of the necessaries of life. never to eat bread when we are not actually hungry and to stop eating as soon as our hunger is appeased. Let us succeed in this as well as we have succeeded along our Iron tiers.
 No matter how much our rations may be reduced we know that our Savior who. during His earthly existence fed thousands of people on nearly nothing, has the power to do the same miracle once more''
 The II .:i burger Prem I e.. hia..t sharply critieizes the people who complain of tho inconvenience caused by the war
 When we are constantly reading" the paper says, "of the heroism which our glorious troops show under all conditions in this war, 1t makes us feel very much ashamed to hear that there are peopl 9 at home who find fault with the petty inconveniences they have to submit to themselves.
 These complaints are In the first place greatly exaggerated. as conditions here are almost normal, but oesices it seems quite incomprehensible that any