Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-01-28

you arc eating tho famous NkartOf4
fcibrot the spirit OF which Mr.. AS
quith said he was "dreading more
than the very Won IIindenburg
hope and feel confident you find that
bread quite palatable, and / am sure
you are not using your allowance Of
about two kilos (four pounds) per
week We have been living at that
rate for nine months quite comfort
ably and most of us have never re-
qured all the coupons" of their
daily bread-card.
Now, at two kilos per week a man,
woman or child would require about
100 lyilos Of grain per annum (the
loss oil weight in milling is slightly
smaller than the gain in baIing),
that is one tenth OF a metric ton.
Therefore, seventy millions Of people
Will require about seven million
metric tons Of 900 kilos per an
mum. The seventy millions include
two million soldier-prisoners, which
we are feeding.
Tho German crop OF wheat and
rye is between fourteen and fifteen
millions OF tons. Thus, you see Ger
many is having twice as much grain
as She could live upon, and the avail
able excess is more than sufficient to
nll IN what we are lacking in im
ports Of barley and oats.
You may take home as a curiosum
that the land of beer drinkers has
been able to reduce its drink bill by
not less than one-half; and a big
item that is, If you consider that an
adult male of the working class in
Munich in peace time is drinking as
an average twenty-siX haIf-bottles
daily of that excellent BavaIian beer.
Our enemies meant to quench us
by cutting off our exports and our
supplies. They meant to do us wrong
and have achieved to do us good, be-
cause they made us save two billion
dollars for imports.
Relying on Substitutes.
The faculty for organization,
which as an observer you may have
noticed, among us is much less due
to Government measures, but is the
result of the discipline, orderliness
and sense of duty of the entire Ger
man people. We have no petrol
| spirit, but are using a substitute ben
zol whereof we obtain hundreds Of
thousands of tons as by-product
from the German coke ovens.
Instead Of oil we are using potato
spirit hardly more expensive. Our
supplies of Chill saltpetre are cut
off, but we are making saltpetre
from the air. it is cheaper than the
neutral product We have not sufi-
cient pyrites for making sulphuric
acid; but then our chemical industry
has achieved to make the product
from gypsum, whereof there is an
unlimited supply.
We arc lacking your excellent
American cotton, but then those dew
ilish alchemists have found out they
can make cotton (cellulose) from
wood, just as we have been making
silk artifcially for years past.
You may take il home TO your
great country that Germany is not
to be beaten, starved nor exhausted
by all her foes, who combined and
prepared for years past TO wipe us
out.
The truth about the causes OF this
most criminal Of all wars Is gradually
! leaking out. No lie can ever live,
wrote Thomas Carlyle, whose famous
pro-German letters to the Times dur
I ing tho war Of 1870 many Of your
readers Will know Ever before for
centuries Germany has been the
battle-ground Of the nations Of
! Europe.
Whether the Swedos fought for
religion and Pomcrania, or whether
there was a quarrel about the Span
ish throne and Marlborough led the
English army against the French
king, or whether Napoleon fought
against the Russians. the battlefield
Was this country.