Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-08-12
German CIVILIANS
RIOT FOR FOOD
Letters and DocumentsShow
the Economic Crisis
is Near
CROWDS ASSAIL
SHOPS AT DAYBREAK

NEW YORK. Aug. l2.-Intimate and
graphic pen pictures of conditions in
Germany during the months of May,
June ana July, as revealed in letters
written by relatives. of soldiers fight
ing for the Fatherland, have been OBJ
tanned by the British authorities
through the iDterception Of the missives
and the seizure of documents on Ger
man prisoners.
Some of the letters and documents
show that the people of Germany are
growing tired of the war, and that the
scarcity and high cost Of food are ap-
preaching crisis.
The letters tell of daily food riots in
The city of Ingolstadt during the month
of June and of the inability to obtain
food at any price in the city Of Wur-
temberg during the latter part of May.
Business in Germany is described as
bad whenever the subject is touched up
10y the writer's. And all tell of the food
scarcity
One writer declares that all she can
see as the result of present conditions
W NeIUdny Is FeNolutlon
Crowds Storm Shops.
A letter. dated June % Last, from
Marie Kammerl, Of Ingolstadt, to a
relative, Joseph Kammerl, an officer
in Company F. 9Th Regiment of the
10th Bavarian Division, now a
prisoner Of the British, reads in
part:
THE situation is gloomy with us.
Our hunger days are beginning.
will give you a short description.
Near the meat and butter shops
the crowd that collects in the streets
is suffocating. and If one does sue
coed in reaching the shop uninjured.
IL is often only to find that there is
nothing moro obtainable that day. At
430 a. m. people collect near the
butcher shops and wait until they
open. at $50 a. m.
There have been no sausages OBJ
tainable for the last three weeks. and
one can only buy 80 pfennings worth
OF cheese. Herrings that formerly
cost pfennings now cost 20 pfen-
nings There has been no -four for
four days and all the bakers shops
are closed. During the day there was
some bread to be had, but by the time
I got home from business there was
none obtainable. Thank God, have
/ a stock
"Riots take place almost daily
every one must eat and there is moth
| ing to he had. In Munich | hear that
a large number OF shop windows have
been broken. If things go on like
this there will be a revolution.
1--WE have got even soap tickets now
7 Soap that cost 30 pfennigs formerl!
now costs $50 pfennigs.
what Is the end of il all?"
! A letter from a woman IN Wurtem
berg to her husband. who is a prisone
OF war at Malta, reads in part:
You have no idea how repulsive /
all is Business is very bad. We ar
not eating enough to sustain life. espe
cially now that things are so dear I
only this dreadful war would end!
shall go mad; that will be the end O
IL. Even for money we can't get
thing to eat"
Promise Austrian Victories.
In a document captured by the Brit
ish, signed by Won Stein, commandin
general. and addressed ITO all CON
rades of the 14th Reserve Corps"
plea is made for them to subscribe Z
the war loans. II pictures German
invaded and its people conquered
the people do not respond to the ar
J peal and bemoans the fact that man
, people ARE stupid enough" to believ
that large subscriptions to the wa
loans will only serve to prolong tn
/ war This document, dated June
last. contains the following paragrap
r on the Russian drive:
1.-THE Austrian reverses in Russi
, may have caused some of you anxlet,
That is quite unnecessary. Last yea
= at one time. things appeared niue
worse over there Then came OF
great victory quite suddenly. TIL
time. also, things will be put right;
e fact. it is already being done"
= The last paragraph Of the docl
e ment ends with a covert appeal fC
e subscriptions to the war loans by d.
claring that when the Allies see "
s high figure Of the loan. thus provin
I that Germany has the means to carr
!, on the war and intends to use Their
@ the struggle will be soonest over ar
. on favorable terms for Germany.
- From a letter written by Gothic
r Krause Of Berlin, II was found u
S Germans call the machines used
4 the Teutons in throwing liquid fire {
n the Allies murder machines
= Krause's letter tells Of the death
his brother Emil at a munition IA
tory. II reads:
. "In his 50th year. my dear BROTH
e Emil was torn from this life by ha
i rowing death on May 81, 1916.
: "In the manufacture OF a loathson
e murder machine (called F1ammenwe
i fer) an explosion occurred. Sever
persons were injured and my lei
brother was discovered as carlo
lied mass. His spirit went quietly
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