Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-08
FOOD CONDITIONS
 AT PRESENT IN GERMANY
Revealed by a Cuban, Former Resi-
 dent Minister in Berlin.

Paris, June 7, 8.30 D. m.-The actual food conditions of the present day in Germany, a scarcity that increases monthly as the livestock decreases4 the prospective poor crops for 1917 because of the shortage of labor, the German viewpoint concerning peace and the attitude toward revolution. coupled with a prediction that the German public may lose confidence in the infallibility of it's leaders, are pre- sented by Dr. Aristides Aguero, Cuban resident minister in Berlin since the beginning of the war but who is now returning home, in tonight's Journal DeS Debats
 pr. Aguero not only spent virtually all the months of the war in Germany the exception being a brief time pass ed in the United States, but also lived in Berlin from 1904 to 1911 as Cuban charge daffaires. He begins his ac- count with a resume of the actual food allowance in Berlin today.
 Here" says Dr. Aguero. "are the most recent figures: SIXty-five gram mes of meat, fifty of bread and two or three potatoes if one can get them. Even the dearest restaurants are for bidden to offer more than one meat. and there is no hope of their evading this rule.
 No Eggs or Milk.
 Eggs. are nonresident, as also is milk. Vegetables are excessively scarce and rare foods are not to be had by persons of tiny purses. A small meal costs from F to 14 marks in the restaurants. Sixty five grammes of meat costs four and a half marks an order of vegetables two and a half marks, and soups one half mark.
 Daily Ration.
 For every eIem/t of the vicil pop ulation, regardless of the social class to which it belongs. the daily ration at the time Of my departure consisted of two hundred and igty grammes of bread, thirty five grammes of meat three hundred and fifty grammes of potatoes, ten erammes of fat and mar malade monthly. or this quantity one received less. rather than more Little children and invaIids the latter on presentation of medical certificates. can get milk, when there is any.
 Cattle and Swine.
 "Gernany before the war had twen- ty-seven million head of cattle, ten per cent. of which were sacrificed in November, 1916. and the number has since fallen to nineteen million. Thirty per cent. of the twenty five million swine have been slaughtered since the war, but the number of swine has risen to twenty million on account of the prolific qualities of the animal The five million sheep have disappenr-
  hundred thousand boats have fallen off to three million.
 Comind Crop Mediocre.
 The coming crop. says Dr, Aeuero. will be very mediocre, because all the Ia bor has to be performed by women and French and Russian prisoners The soil is also suffering from a lack of real nitrates. the nitrates artificial ly produced being far inferior to the previously imported product He esti- mates that the production has retro graded at least twenty-se per cent per hectare.
 Morale Not Affected. Having recounted these facts about the German situation, the Cuban min ister continues to make it plain that privations have not as yet affected the German morale and he warns against counting upon such a contingency The German. he says. accepts and to submit to discipline which the Latin would not think of submit ting to. 'The German" the writer continues. thinks he must fight 10 the last breadth and the last man because he believes this war is a matter of life or death for Germany. He believes that if he is vanquished Germany will be divided among France, Russia Bel gium, Italy and Denmark and that all remaining will be small portions of Prussia with Berlin as the capital"