Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-12
Chapter 81

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Dir. h. Perrenon of the kronprinz
Wilhelm Did Not Consider the short
ness OF Breath and the Pallor the
Grew Engaged in Sinking French and
British Ships to BE Seriously Signin-
cant-FNor This Reason No Effort Was
Made to Change the Dietary, Which
Finally Resulted Not Alone in the Col
lapse of the German Sailors, but Also
In the Collapse of All the Popularity
Accepted Theories Concerning Food
Values.
The Kronprinz Wilhelm steamed
from Hoboken August 3, 1914. little
more than u month later, September
I, 1914, she sank the British steamer
Indian Prince SDund from Bahia to
New York, after confiscating all the
coal, white flour, meat, butter, canned
vegetables, coffee, sugar, and soda
crackers found on that ship.
Her own supply of fresh meat was
nearly exhausted when the Indian
Prince was sighted. The white -four
and meat were looked upon as mamma
from heaven. Another month passed.
october /, 1914, the British steamer
La Correntina. bound from Argentina
TO London with 5,600,000 pounds of
fresh beef, was sighted by the Ger
man ships lookout She, too, was
run down and from her immense re-
frigerators, flooded with formaldehyde
gas, the Germans seized enough
chilled and frozen beef TO supply her
needs for several years.
She crammed her own spacious re-
frigerators with hindquarters and
ribs. In addition she corned 10000
pounds OF rounds, using the custom
airy brine OF sodium chloride and
N.-,s s.e INA
After taking enough meat to provide
each member of her crew as much as
three pounds a day for an entire year
she confiscated all the La Correntina's
butter, patent -four, tea biscuits, sweet
crackers, potatoes, canned vegetables,
and her meager supply of fresh Vege-
tables before blowing her up. Six
weeks passed.
November 21. 1914, she captured the
French bark Anne de Bretagne on
her way from Fredrickstad to sgd
ney. This boat, before she was blown
to pieces, surrendered all her coal,
patent flour butter, potatoes. canned
vegetables, sugar. coffee, champagne,
and dried peas. The rest of her pro-
visions went to the bottom.
The Germans had all the meat,
bread and butter they coud eat With
their twenty-siN knots an hour they
knew they could continue to scour
tue seas unlll lne emu OF the war. II
necessary, sinking vessel after vessel
and obtaining coal and provisions as
long as the men continued in health.
Fresh meat, bread and butter, and
potatoes are generally assumed to be
DEMONSTRATING foods. The Germans
unwittingly. were about to explode
that mischievous but long-venerated
theory.
December 4, 1914. after she had
been cruising for four months she
sank the British steamer Bellevue,
bound from Liverpool to South Amer
lea. From this ship she secured 1000
tons of coal and an immense shipment
of sweet biscuits with all the patent
-four. butter, and canned vegetables
which the Englishman carried.
The slow moving influence of their
refined and demineralized diet (en-
tirely cid-producing) had not yet
made itself felt in the bodies of the
sturdy Germans and there was no
suspicion, even among the ships sur
geons. of the fact that the fruits of
her raids we're actually gnawing into
her own vitals.
on the afternoon OF the same day,
December 4, 1914. she sank the French
Marseilles TO South America. Before
blowing her up all her butter, patent
flour and potatoes were seized.
Each raid. while supplying tons of
food, was slowly but surely inten-
styling the mild acidosis that was
finally destined to violence that
would overpower her crew and compel
her to make her last dash through