El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-15
GERMANS CUT
BREAD SUPPLY
Of PRISONERS
Prohibiting Sending Any
Except to Individual Pris-
oners by Name.
MEANS SUFFERING
TO MANY THOUSANDS

| GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, Jan. 10.
= By official order. Germany has
stopped the shipment of bread
, to prisoners-of-war in Germany, IN
less each package OF bread is ad-
| dressed TO an individual prisoner. This
order has caused CONSERVATION to those
in charge of the breat supply to pris-
! oners, as they say it is practically i'm
possible to send individual packages
except TO a few. and that the great
bread supply cut off They declare,
too, that back of this order is a SIMS
ter move to strike such terror among
the Allies on the starving condition of
their prisoners, that they will be will
ing to listen to peace
The International Red Cross or
ganizatiOn has its headquarters here
Max DOllfus, an Alsation, was made
director Of the bread supply furnished
French prisoners Of-War in Germany
and it was he who told the Associated
Press of the order and the grave effect
French Must Have Bread.
Bread is the very element of
Frenchman's existence, said he Y on
can cut off anything else and he can
stand it, but he must have bread. Now
we have built up a vast organization
by which bread is being poured into
Germany to meet this primary want
viduaI packages. but the great bulk
has been without individual names, as
il is impossible to designate each one
OF about 800, 600 prisoners in a daily
bread supply And yet this order cuts
off everything not addressed IN an IN
dividual package, direct TO the prls-
oner. So that the great bulk Of this
Promotes tuberculosis.
7 have had many opportunities to
see the serious effect Of short bread
rations to prisoners added AR. Doll
fus- The prisoners returning TO
France have been conveyed by me to
Lyons and other points IN central
France, and have personally wit
reports. For example, in one party OF
400 prisoners which conveyed $50
had developed tuberculosis from be
ing in a famished condition from a lack
OF bread-they were literally annotated
skeletons stricken with fatal disease.
And this was typical OF the result OF
short bread ratiOns-
German Ration is Small.
'The German ration to prisoners,
Mr. DOllfus went on, 'is one small loaf, !
about four inches in diameter, in the
morning This is intended for the day, !
but the famished men eat II at once !
and that ends their bread supply lot
tie day. only soup being given al /
noon That is the reason We have =
been pouring in this bread supply,
largely in bulk, but to individuals so I
far as they could be traced II mas
proved a life saver TO thousands And
vet by this order this bread supply in
bulk is cut off
This can mean only another great
tragedy said Mr.. Dollfus, and 1 am
convinced there must be purpose be
hind such move-a purpose to force
the allies to consider terms Of peace,
rather than see their own people dying
of starvation. And we except, also,
that if the bulk supply is cut off, this
will soon be followed b. cutting OH
the individual packages, on the ground
that il is too great an undertaking TO
distribute these individual daily sup
plies And so we are faced with the
present stoppage OF the bulk supply
and the probable stoppage of the re-