The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-04-10
CAN GERMANY Be STARVED
into SUBMISSION?

can got what he wants from the food cd
DEPARTMENT. So can other officials.
Therefore they were willing to dlsre-
gard the demand OF the Bavarian So
cialists
Put the Socialists, although they
don't get publicity when they start
something. don't give up until they ac-
Complish ;twhat they set out 10 40.
First. they enlisted the Berlin Social
lists, and the report went around Inc
Curcnhagcn and bringing back food
while the poor starved. SO the govern
mint had 10 prohibit all food from
coming into Germany by way or Den
mark unless it was imported by inc
government.
That was the first. success Of the Ba;
vnr!an Socialists. Now they haye had
another. Ratocki is reported as having
announced that all food supplies VIII
IL" rontiscatcd The Socialists are re-
sp0nsiblo.
Excepting the very wealthy and those
who have stored quantities of food for
the siege" every German Is Under
noTrish.d. 4 great many people arc
starving. Tho head physician Of the
K;tiscrin Augusta Victoria hospital In
Berlin stated that $4,000 children died
in Berlin in 1916 TO: lack cf food.
Tho "L"kaI-Anziceer printed the item
and the foreign ofic" censor prohibited
me from sending il to New York
Eu; starvation under The blockade Is
Il SLOW process. and ii has not yet
reached the army. When ] was on the
S0mnic naiIlr:ieidS last November and
in Rnumania in December the soldiers
wer" not only we'll fed. hit they had
Injuries which their families at home
did not have. Two years ago there was
so much food Ut home the women sent
food boxes TO the front. Today tn"
soldiers not only send. but carry guam
iitt"s.~uf food from the front 10 their
homes. The army has more than the
people.
1t is aimos; impossible to say
whether Germany, as Il nation. can he
starved into submission Everything
depends urun the next harvest. the
length OF the war and iuiur" military
operations. The German government. /
think ran make tn" people hold out
until tho coming harvest, Unless there
is = big military defeat. In their pres
mt mnl.rnUuriSh,%t condition the pun
lie could not fac" defeat. It IN" war
..ldS this year 'irrmnny w!ll not be 80
starved that she will accept any peace
terms. i;ui If III" war continues an
ether year or TWO Germany Will have To
aloci.ade's Effect on Food supply.
| entered Germany At III" beginning
~ tho Allied bluckacl". In. February.
1915. on" could iurchas" any Kind and
ai5y' quantity Of food In Germany. TW"
Years Inter. when l"ft. there were AZ
least eighteen fo"dStu-$ which could
net l'" TrilTtlliS''i Any " iflt' 'II' 'h'I
r,rr lively" Kinds # food which could
J.. obtained Only - government cards.
That is what iii" Allied blockade did q
n, food supplies. II n!adc Germany
look Xix, :; grocery store after closing
"Ut sale.
Surius,. III tn" United States you
wHnt"'; The simplest brrakfnst-c"ir"c
;'nG bread and butter. Suppos: you
wanted light luncheon Of eggs or u
sHrUiw!ch.. tea and fruit. Suppose for
dinner you wantrd 4 plain m"nu OF
SCUM. meat. vegetables and dessert. AZ
an rr"""ry or l.nrh COURIER you could
90 not only these plain foods. but any
thing ris, YOU wanted.
Nc; - in Germany. For breakfast
N"u cannot have pure coffee. and y"ii
can hly: only \ very small quantity 81
hUtt"r with %our butter card. Hotels
serve 4 coffee substitute. but most poo.
r!,, prefer nothing. For luncheon you
may hay" m "Eg. but only one day dur
ing iw" weeks. Hotels sLill sorry: n
weak. highly cnlorcd tea md apples nr
oranges. For dinner you may haze
soup without and meat or fat IN II.
Soups arr. just mixture "f water and
vegetables. Two days It week you can
r.'t Il small p"c" Of meat with Il meat
card. Other days yGu can eat boiled
fish.
Houscholders store Food.
People who keep house. Of course.
have moro food. because as q rule they
have been storing supplies. TAX" the
Christian Scientists rs an instance.
Members Of this church havn organized
IL semi-"fricial club. Members buy nil
III" extra, food possible. Then they
for tho "siegc"-thr time when food vii!
be- scarccr than 1t is today.
Two women practitioners In Berlin.
who live together. bought th!rtypounds