The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-01-04
GERMANS PEACE OFFER
RESULT OF STARVATION,
ISVIEW HELDIN LONDON
Information Based Reports in Teuton Press of Riots
by Underfed Population-End of Enemys
Endurance Believed to Be Near.
Mass Feeding Planned.

the people most surely would be reduced
to tolcrable proportions"
Mass Feeding Planned.
The following extracts. translated
literally, afford n better idea of the
actual conditions than any comment
which might be offered. The TdOebldt
says:
According to information which we
have gathered in authoritative circles
II would appear that there Is no help
for II but TO introduce a system OF com
pulsory mass feeding. whereby families
will be supplied daily with breakfast,
dinner and supper in fiXed quantities.
Details are not yet available, but 1t may
be taken as certain that compulsory
mass feeding will be of general appli-
cation and that no single section OF the
population will be exempt from its oper-
alton. We welcome the step as perhaps
the only one likely to avert the menace
of under, or rather unequal. feeding that
hovers over us, with all its attendant
horrors"
The Munich Post says:
How much oftener are we. az the
spokesmen for the Bavarian people, to
shout into the deaf ears OF the Prussian
playing the part OF Cinderella among
the German tribeso We know that in
Berlin and other Prussian centres many
thousands OF cases OF eggs intended for
Bavaria and already paid for by Ba-
varians are being held up with the evil
dent approval of the authorities.
Those same authorities, well know
Ing how badly food Is needed In Ba-
varla, are Prussians. Are they about 10
seize these eggs for their own consump-
ton or will they allow them to rot
rather than feed them 10 the Bavarian
riffrar. as We have more than once
overheard the northern officials call us!
J Urgent prayers that have been ad-
| dressed 10 the Prussian bureaucrats by
| our business men and importers have
not until now received a moments at
! tcntion. Are they blind in Berlin? Can
not they see that things cannot continue
thus' Must 1t come 10 catastrophe
Purchasers Criticised.
The VortedeTts says:
IF everybody else is obliged t,
tighten his belt TO still the disquietnl
clamors of his stomach. the 500 gentle
| men constituting the Central Purchasins
Society are faced with no such neces
sity. For in the restaurant attached I,
their Offices in Berlin they dine ex
tremely we'll. There they revel daily il
veal outlets, potatoes. rice. beef stew
sauerkraut. sausage. Goldfish, herring
dried peas. beans and other fare the yer
mention OF which is enough to turl
even person of most angelic disposition
green with envy.
We would ask the purchasing societ
how It's canteen is so plentfully provide
with the very produces which the popu
lation cannot procure even at fabulou
prices. The general population. whic
depends for its sustenance on this or
ganization and Is obliged TO pay mon
s;rous prices for food. is entitled to in
slst on an explanation
The Mulhausen IOlksseitnnJ says:
There evidently are men who ca
; still afford luXurieS and enjoy eXpensiv
stews while the hungry and exhauste
working people have to nourish then
: selves on offal. When such can occu
: In a great city. what. may We ask. mus
he happening in those localities wher
} control is practically absent? From bt
, ing the hest organized people in III
world We are fast degenerating Int
something like anarchy"