New Britain herald., 1917-09-21
GERMANY FACING
 WINTER OF HUNGER
Crops Not Good Despite Fore
 casts Of Officials

New York, Sept. 21.-The impress sbsn that Herr von Waldow, the new German Food Dictator is going to have a still harder task than his pred ecessor. Adolph von Batockl, created by the mass of conflicting capitals printed in the American press during the last few weeks, is confirmed by items found in copies of German newspapers received in New York. London. and Switzerland. It appears tfrat the optimistic views expressed about the new crops by the German experts early in the season have hard 1y been justified by results so lar, and that another war Winter will see the German people reduced to still more meagre rations, despite the re- lief promised through grain supplies fnen Rumania and occupied Russia
 Reports from various parts of the Kaiser's empire on the grain, fruit and potato situation show that the output is comparatively small ana that the prospects of a big supply being laid away for the Winter are poor. Some of the governments moves to increase the food supply have had quite a different effect than what was intended. The authorities offered a rremi,1m to farmers for the early deIiyery of grain so as to speed up the Summers harvest. As a result the mills and storehouses are overflow ing with grain, and the Munchener Neueste Nachrichten says that such enormous quantities of grain have been received that it is impossible to ? store it properly, and 1t is feared that much of it may be spoiled, thus threatening a catastrophe to the na- tion's food supply. The Bavarian
 iofo hok n ! dered the farmers to keep their grain until it can be properly stored and handled.
 Central Market Conditions.
 In lengthy article, the Berliner : T&geblatt explains the extremely small supply of fruit and vegetables to be found in the public markets of the German capital by laying prac- tically all the blame upon the na- tional bureaus charged with the pro- curing of food for the Nrge cities. and then draws the following picture of conditions in the central market:
 "He who takes the trouble to make pilgrimage at night to the 'sto- mach of Greater Berlin will surely understand why there is no fruit or vegetables to be had in Berlin. Last
 
 tables were brought to the market for sale. And these twenty wagons, l. carried perhaps twelve full wagon ! loads altogether, contained not only vegeta bles, but to a large degree let tuee and radishes, too! That was all that was placed at the disposi- ! ton of the 100000 population of Berlin for today in the central mar ket. Of course, it is certain that a large part of the vegetable output doesn't come to the market place at all, but, rather, is disposed of at the city's gates, in the streets, and at the railroad station.
 Advance on Markets.
 "Here is the picture presented at 1 the opening at n of the market sto the retail dealers: Men and women who have been waiting in dense ] crowds before the doors of the market blil ding for hours charge the few places where fruit and vegetables are offered for sale at the double quick. He who gets anything Is mighty lucky. Most of them leave in the morning g the same as they came. There are from 5000 to 5000 retail dealers in Berlin. The goods on hand last night certainly were not enough to supply ] more than SOU or 9UO or them. when we hear the justified complaints of the many little dealers who leave night after night With empty hands emight admit that there is a defect In the method of distribution It is certain that part of the supply is sold In advance, and that some of the pro- fucers look afer their old customers