Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-02-21
BEER BREWING IN
germany MAY end
All Grain Available May Be
Needed for Men and
Horses.
POTATO FLOUR BREAD
Food Expert Declares Germans Eat
Too Much Anyway, and Short RatiOns
WIN Prove Observation-Disclosures
Write Of Fighting at
the Front.

Berlin, Feb. 2O.-While we have the
official word of the minister of the in
terror that we do not need to starve
the day when the brewing of beer will
cause altogether because all the
grain available must be used as for
food for men and horses.
Our morning meal reminds us ev-
cry day of the fact that we are more
under close blockade. The coffee con-
tains more and more chicory and the
delicious white ''broedchen" has been
replaced by roll which is made from
mixture of potato, rye and a small
percentage of wheat flour. Sausages
are still plentiful, but Heaven knows
what they are made from.
Under such circumstances the fam
GUS German professor has once more
been found useful. Professor Carl
Ludwig Schleich, the food expert, has
pledged his solemn word that before
the war the Germans of the well-to-
do classes were guilty of the sin of
over eating and that a period Of ascot
icism Will prove, if perhaps somewhat
painful, exceedingly beneficial. He
adds the interesting information for
which the war department will surely
haul him over the Goals, that thou
sands of German soldiers in the
trenches have gone for days without
food, only to fight better than ever.
Altogether there are plenty Of symp-
toms, official and others, that the food
supply of the empire is causing more
and more anxiety, but it only adds to
the grim determination to fight to the
bitter end.
Worse than the scarcity of food
stuffs, which is sure to be greatly re-
lieved when the years crops are har-
vested, is the scarcity of commodities
necessary to carry on the war which
are not produceG in the country.
The stock of petroleum is beginning
to get very low and with the Russians
occupying Galicia and the British
navy cutting off all imports by sea the
government is gradually preparing
petroleum will be seized by the state.
The scarcity of copper will also be-
come acute as soon as we have ex-
hausted the supply on hand in Bel
GUM, now being stripped of every
ounce of the precious metal which
the military Moloch must have for the
manufacture of guns and shells.
In recent copy of the COLOGNE
Gazette" | find in a letter from a SOL
der describing a fight between Ger
mans and French in the Vosges, the
following lines:
"The fight developed into gigantic
artillery duel. Our guns tried to re-
ply and certainly did their best, but
they were far from being able to hold
their own against the art of the
French guns which directed furious
cannonade against our trenches.
while another part devoted their at
tention to destroying our batteries.
"Many French shells, it is true, fell
short or failed to explode in our
trenches, but on the right and left or
the place where l was our troops oc-
cupying tine heights. suffered heavy
losses from fire to which they were
utterly unable to reply"
Further On in the letter the same
soldier describing how the fight last
ed all night, writes:
"When darkness came we began to
breathe more freely and ventured out
side our subterranean shelter, hoping
to get peace to eat much-belated
breakfast. Alas, it was not to be.
Suddenly the internal concert be-
gins again. though it was so dark
that you cannot see hand held close
before your eyes. The French fire
as if possessed. Their aim is dread
fully accurate and they sprinkle all
roads and trenches with a hail Of
shrapnel."
In another issue of the cologne
Gazette" Professor Wegener, the pa
per's we'll known war correspondent,
shows that the French artillery does
not limit itself to bombarding the
common soldiers, but at least once
came very near killing General Won
Kluck at his own headquarters. He
writes:
Zone afternoon the general, his
chief Of staff and l were enjoying our
coffee after lunch. Suddenly we hear
a 'Sissss-boom!' A sound as If OF
gigantic whip whistling through the
air followed by heavy crash. 1t was
a shell which fell into the village only
a few hundred meters from where
we were seated.
I'VE stare at one another dumb
founded. A couple of minutes pass
and again we hear 'Sissss-boom!
This time considerably nearer. The
window panes are rafting. The she'll
must have fallen on the other side
of the street or in the next garden.
"When you are in the firing line you
pay no attention to shell which
drops a hundreds meters away. but
here at the. very headquarters OF the
general commanding in a place where
no shells have fallen for long time!
"In the street outside we see people
rushing hither and thither in great
confusion. All motor cars are rapid
ly removed from the danger zone. we
go out into the garden to try to dis
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