Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-11

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Tasblatt states that speaker at a
| meeting of the City Council declared
that the feeding Of the poorest classes
| had become almost an impossibility"
| On March the Bohemia announces
that the war grain office has failed to
supply $4,000 kilos of -four which had
been promised. In consequence there
| is Il bread crisis. 'Well-to-do people
| are asked to do without bread" The
! Dcutschcs Nolksblatt of March 10
says: From all the mountain dis
of Bohemia cries for help reach u.s."
PRESS SHOWS AUTHORITIES
ARE BECOMING UNEASY
/ The German press supplies evidence
/ that the authorities are uneasy and
are uncertain whether the rations OF
! the two principal articles of food.
bread and potatoes. can be maintained
at their present level. Moreover. the
| high hopes OF getting abundant sup
| plies from the Ukraine have now all
| but vanished.
During February the weekly bread
ration varied between three pounds
| fifteen ounces at Altoona and KEEL and
/ four pounds six ounces at Dresden and
| Munich. The usual ration Of potatoes
! was seven pounds ten ounces per
week. Two general >and authorita-
| tive statements on the food situation.
| with particular reference to the bread
and potato supplies. arc to lie noted
! The first was made by member OF
| the War Food Bureau. and is given to
the Dusseldorfer Nachrichten of
| March IL:
| AS regards potatoes. he had nothing
definite TO say on the question whether
| higher rations would soon be possible
| Tremendous quantities OF potatoes
reckoned on In the inventory had been
withdrawn from the general public
on the bread supply, and expressed
the hope that the present rations would
| remain unchanged until the harvest.
| Too much must not be expected OF i'm
ports from the Ukraine. although peace
| with that country and Rumania will
mean substantial Improvement in
! the food supply next year
y less cheerful view was taken in
Munich. where the Bavarian Minister
OF the Interior and a high official.
| the food question The minister. as
reported In the Munchner Neueste
Nachrichten of March II. said:
! The harvest. taking German:
whole, Is so scanty that only with
the greatest economy and the most
drastic appropriation OF all stocks
can we make 1t suffice.
Herr Brand. speaking on the bread
supply. stated that it will remain as
/ il is for the present:
The statistics OF the potato crop
cannot have been correct, for Tie last
crop was not worse than that of 1916
| "a record bad harvest). The result
had. however, led to further reduc-
lions. Our position is serious and
requires the complete appropriation OF
all foodstuns and the greatest econ
omy to enable us to hold out.
BREAD RATIGNS
CURTAILED IN SOME DISTRICTS
| The hope expressed by these gem
! tlcmcn that the bread ration would
be maintained has not been univer-
! sally realized. Thus the Deutsche
! Tageszeitung OF March points out
! that bread rations have been curtailed
/ in some districts, and mentions one
case in which they had been reduced
/ to three and one-half pounds per week.
! 1t would, moreover. be wrong to think
! that war bread in Germany is = good
as war bread in England Here is the
description OF II given by Norwaerts
on March o.
Well-baked bread is the exception.
/ The dough sticks to the bread knife
in cutting and the bread has often a
! watery streak. The consumption Of
! bread Of this kind leads to stomach
and intestinal troubles. which develop
| into collie.
There is note IF poignancy in the
statement Of n writer in the Bremen
! Burger Zeitung OF March l6 as TO the
position OF working people. He points
out that while the cost CT food has
! risen 100 to so per cent since 1914. the
average rise in wages is only 40 per
| cont.
The continued existence of workers
! when there is such difference be-
tween the rise OF food prices and
wages is explained by the fact that
! the high priced foods. c. e.. butter.
eggs. milk, fat, sausage and cheese.
may only be bought TO the extent q
one-fourth OF tho former consumption.
and others. such as bread. meat and
| fruit, 10 the extent of one-half.
How small is the amount OF these
! articles OF food allowed the Germans
! may be judged from the following
maximum rations-thc actual -rations
depend on the available supp!ios--as
given in the German papers during
February. The average weekly meat
ration IS half a pound. The average
ration OF butter and margarine is two
ounces. The egg ration is two cgs:
per month. but in some places. such as
Frankfurt. Dresden and Stuttgart. only
one egg per month is given. There IL
practically no milk for anybody cx-
ccrt young children and invalids. who
receive it when available. The -atior
of soup cubes IS one ounce. IT should
he noted hat rations in different
parts OF Germany vary. In many low n
he fish ration Is less than an ounce
per week. And in considering thcce
figures it must be borne in mind shat
in Germany almost every foodstrf is
rationed. so that compensation for re
strictions enforced by tho authorities
cannot be found, rs in England. in tho
larger employment of unrotioned foods.
The latest information conce ming
the food situation in Germany ard Aus
tria Hungary was given in the Daily
News. published on Friday last. We
arc now able TO supplement the par
| ticularS then given with some details,
received from Il thoroughly trustWor
thy source, concerning tho general 20
sition of affairs in the enemy coun-
! tries.
WAR SPIRIT AGAIN IN THE
ASCENDANT IN GERMANY
1t has FIRST 10 be noted that the war
| spirit is again in the ascendant in Ger
many. The vast majority of the people
are apparently determined to accept
only 4 German peace, and the military
and lcalinC inlIlst ri lists are