Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-06

individual is supposed to receive 60
grams of fat--but,er, margarine or
grease Of some kind--per week. In
smaller towns the ration is still less.
This means that the most that any
one gets for eating or cooking purpos-
es is a piece about as big as man
thumb.
Milk Shortage Is Acute.
AS regards milk, children under
one year now get three-quarters OF
lltre per day, those from one to four
years old half litre, and those from
four TO six years a quarter of u htre.
Everybody with whom | discussed
the matter said that even this made
quate amount" could not be MAIN
tained. Adults get no milk whatever.
The milk shortage is reflected in a
statement made to us by hugo
Haase. chief of three radicals in the
Cabinet of six, to the effect that %
per cent CT all legitimate and so per
cent of all illegitimate babies born in
the past year have died. The Berlin
death rate in 1917 was 25 per cent.
higher than in 1916, and the increase
in the past year is believed to have
been even greater.
The food conditions in Germany
cannot be estimated accurately from
survey of any one section of the
country. That is why reports OF an
abundance of food in the territories
occupied by our armies are mislead-
ing If taken as an indication of the
situation as a whole.
The Saar valley and the other dis
tricts west of the Rhine and practi-
cally the entire Rhine valley are
among the most productive regions In
Germany. The very fact that this
territory can no longer help to sup
ply the less productive districts Is
source of anxiety to the German food
experts. Bavaria. Baden and the
Rhenish provinces always have been
able to feed themselves and have
plenty left over to give to their neigh
bors Berlin and the surrounding
countryside and the Kingdom of Sax
ony. with it's Industrial centres, have
always had TO he fed from the out
side and never got enough.
Saxony the Worst sufferer.
"rhe hunger epidemic" recently
claimed more lives in SaXony than
in any other part of the empire. Ac-
cording to the central wheat distrib-
uting agency in Berlin. there are 81
000,0 persons, including soldiers,
living in the districts TO which grain
must be imported. Many of these
districts have to import practically
all their foodstuffs, as is the case in
Berlin.
Thus the problem of transportation
looms up alongside that of food re-
serves. The Germans are unanimous
in complaining about the harshness
of the armistice terms relating to the
surrender of a large number of loco
motives and other rolling stock. be-
cause they say the loss of this mater
ial will make food shipments by rail
harder than ever to assure. A high
railroad official told me that of 50,-
600 locomotives Germany owned be-
fore the war only 20 600 are in COM
rrission now. have no means of
ehecking up these figures, but cer-
tainly the depreciation of the Prus-
sian rolling stock and material is
considerable.
The situation is complicated by
thousands of deserters returning from
tho front who seize trains and tie up
the whole system bvi insisting that
one particular troop train shall have
the tight Of way.
When the armistice was signed
Perrin had food supplies for one
week All tho freight and passenger
service into the city was suspended.
and for three days only trains carry.