The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-22
ORDER CUTS OFF
BREAD SUPPLIES
GERMANS WOULD DEPRIVE
THE PRISONERS OF FOOD
SENT BY COUNTRYMEN

GENEVA, Jan. By official or
der Germany has stopped the ship
ment of bread to prisoners of war
in Germany unless each package of
bread is addressed to an i%ndividuaf
prisoner. This order has caused
CONSERVATION to those in charge of
the bread supply to prisoners, as
they say it is practically impossi-
BILE to send individual packages
except to a few and that the great
bulk of prisoners will have their
bread supply cut off. They declare
that back of this order is a sini5-
ter move to strike such terror
among the allies on the starving
condition of their prisoners, that
they will be willing 20 listen to
peace.
The international Red Cross or
ganization has it's headquarters here,
administering it's affairs for tie
whole world at this central point.
Gustave Adoe, a Swiss, is at the
head and Max Dollfus, an Alsatian
of strong French sentiment, is at
the head of the bureau for prison.
ers of war.
Bread is the very element of a
Frenchman's existence" said be,
you can cut off anything else and
be can stand it, but he must have
bread. Now we have built up a
vast organization by which bread
has been poured into Germany to
,aaot fhic prip,ory uuont email
part of it has gone in indivld-
ual packages, but the great bdlk
has been shipped without individ :
ual names, as it is impossible to
designate each n of about 100000
prisoners in a daily bread supply.
And yet this order of Dec. 81 cuts
off everything not addressed IN III
dividual packages, direct to the
prisoner, so that the great bulk of
this supply is stopped.
Il have had many opportunities
to see the serious effect of short
bread rations to prisoners. The
prisoners returning to France have
been conveyed by me to Lyons and
other points in central France, and
| have personally witnessed their
condition and heard their reports.
For example,, in one party of 400
prisoners which l conveyed, ESQ had
developed tuberculosis from being III
of bread, they were literally eman
ciated skeletons stricken with fatal
disease. And this was typical of the
result of short bread ratiOns.
The German ration to prisoners
is one small loaf, about four inches
in diameter, in the morning. This
is intended for the day, but the
famished men eat it at once and
that ends their bread supply for
the day, only a soup being given
at noon. That is the reason we
have been pouring in this bread
supply, largely in bulk, but to in
dividuals so far as they could lie
traced. 1t has proven a life saver
to thousands. And yet by this Or
der this bread supply in bulk IS
cut off.
This can mean only another
great tragedy and | am convinced
there must be a purpose behind
such a move a purpose to force
the allies to consider terms OF
peace, rather than see their own
people dying of starvation. And
we expect, also that if the bulk
supply is cut off this will o
be followed by cutting off the indt-
vidual packages, on ground that it
is too great an undertaking to dis
tribute these individual daily sup
plies. And so we are faced with
the present stoppage of the bulk
supply and the probable stoppage
OF the remaining individual supply.