Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-27


was dscrycrod only the other day by
Office building i'm one oC the most FREE
qucntcd streets OF the capital
Peasants in Armed Resistance
The possibility of selling their prod
nee at "a vast profit naturally makes tho
farmers l0a,h to part with H. whom tho
Government orders them to give 1T up
Lately there have been cases i'm which
the pcnsnnts have opposed armed re-
sistnncc to the officials who came 20
commander their whcnt. In BaNari"u
village tine peasants droy" away tho
Coycrumorf commissioner who had como
to claim hundred tons Of -FOUR and
when he returned with guard Of pclicc
they barricadcd tho village street and
orcucd fire from rcyoiNcrs and shoiEuus.
Tho commissioner was forced to retreat
without the -four.
when the buyers return from
.huir expeditions into the agricultural
districts ;hcy report to the central or
aani2ation at Berlin and receive high
urrcoutaCc ON the sum Of their pur-
chaseS. How great these sums often are
/. illustrated by the fact that n" less
than two hundred thousand marks III
cash were found on three buyers re
I,'.'' ,I.,..' ,,,,., .,c,cldcd i'm bu,iug nm =
,,.,,,,,tod ,,,it,, orcnIv by rail
u,'. ,I n,,,i,.,,.. nr hrihe,; rairoad
WIN ,l'o I,Ii,, i,.,lr II T.. ,,o husi-
o,''.'' '.. .'n .',I,g,,,u nr fine "Schlcirh-
hacndlcr" to solicit orders under 4
nIedpc of strict secrecy. Their best
customers are the big hotels and rcs-
taurants. which are absolutely unable"
70 SUNNY their table except by having
recourse to the food traders. lhrtc or
the most fashionable E"rlln restaurants $
were recently closed ny "rper OF 'he
authorities Tor IN" uNrNu"N U' we N''
for this ou"nSr against inc 100" I'"S'
u;,r, pa. while poor Sinryc
As | have said. the prices demanded
hv the food trader, are from twenty TO
thirty times higher than those author
iZeG by law. but i'm spite OF this even
people Of moderate means. desperate Tor
food. Sacriii"" their last cent to bhN from
the dealers what the "oN"rnmehi cannot
, sell them, ahb "''I NOT h'!o" '"'m y"
purChas" lnMlhlIA' N'h""N Pr"p"
ANA there - p'rh"PN' "",' "'"'" w
day III bcrhh man "N'' "''"''' "N '''''
undonbte"'H ~ '"n,''E nI"'
are "' course N','IH az" - IL ~
any p'''' c' ,t' t.'io'' IF r,,,r,..,I trs,-
~ ,,.t,, .,r,o,. bair,- dircd and ,inod
,.'' ,,,,at rant,i,s nT ministry i'm tbr
E.,iso,..g ,,I,i,aI solcmuIv Ecrlnr, mat
,hc Good situation i'm Germany is not
ga critical. after all.
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,.r,,, r.,,l ,,.,,,1 Inn ,i,,,ir,. ,.,,,,itio,,.
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. T., i,,.,tr "ai,,arc n,,ssoIlorr
~ TI'-,,,,,,,,d -, air Thn rhi,r dietrirts In
,i, i.,,,... ,,,,,r.,,., .,r.. ,h,, mo-,
49,, ,f pny,', and SiIesi, rrnr, which
,,',,ir,,,,,d, ,r unIaurnII,. n,Irrhosed rnod
,,i',a T,rrin ol,,nst d,iI, In -
,I,,rra ho, tbc pcrIircr TopobIa,t
go thrcc burdr.d tons of food were
C.,,tod uv mo noIicn at tbc RerIir
. ,,,,,..,I .,.,i,,, prt ,bcsc ,,,Iico ,,iJs
are few and far between. Although
agents of the organization are continue
ally being arrested and sentenced to va
rIous terms of imprisonment and heavy
/ fines. the men who finance and direct
| thc opcratious are very rarely molcstcd
. and business is carried on "as usual "
/ Zines to thc ;imouut Of one hundred
! tbousard marks were impoycd i'm our
! d,r NV tho criminal court AT NIoabit
ar,o,. a. rid la. tbc roIiro op tho rrcicht
daro,s ,t Roriiu Tbo orrapizatior Las