Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-04-18
IN RACE AGAINST
GERMAN ANARCHY
Government Exploits Arrival OF
First Food From United
States in Berlin.
HALTS B0LSHEWST CAMPAIGN
Special Food Cards Issued for Flour
and Fats-Hamburg Gets First
Supply-Mining Strike Situa-
tion Worse-Bad Harvest.

Berlin.-The situation in Germany
Is developing into a neck-and-neck
:ace between American food and Boil
shevism. To check the Spartacan I'M
:est, the government began an inten-
siVe home propaganda exploiting the
arrival in Berlin of the first food from
America-300 tons Of flour. The gov
ernment also predicted the arrival of
large shipments of fats and bacon,
FOR which the lean Teutons most
yearn. The government promises in
creased rations of fats as an Easter
present.
The first beneficiaries will be the
Industrial centers, cities of more than
$4,000 inhabitants. Special new food
cards will be issued emitting the
holders to buy American foodstuffs.
The per capita weekly rations will be,
temporarily, four and half ounces OF
bacon and one and three-quarter
ounces of fat, distributed through the
existing food control system at a min.
imum cost Of 62 marks a pound
(about $1.44. There will also be a
weekly per capita flour ration of nine
ounces at maximum price of marks
and a half a pound (nominally about
60 cents).
The underfed Germans were also
very glad to learn that Hamburg was
The first German city to eat American
food since the United States entered
the. war, American flour having beer
distributed in that city.
The Berlin Tagebatt, which is play
ing pro-British politics and has become
bitterly anti-American, says, however
that the price Of American flour is st
high that the proletariat and the mid
die classes cannot afford to buy it
so the effect will be that it will benefit
only the wealthy, who are already able
to obtain an adequate food supply BY
illegal means. The Tageblatt adds:
"Thus America thanks us for the
surrender of our ships, whereby
America will do SPLENDID business
at the expense Of our exhausted MI
ton. This is nothing but scornins
u.s."
The Tageblatt says further that II
the process of unloading an American
foodship IAN ungodly amount" of foot
was stolen and that already 40 long
shoremen have been arrested fo;
stealing flour.
SO that the German people will no.
be led to squander food by excessive
optimism aroused by the arrival o:
American supplies, the government ]!
letting it be known widely that the
next harvest will he a very poor one
claiming that with most favorable
weather. the harvest cannot possibly
exceed one-half the normal.
Despite the satisfaction that the
arrival of American food is causing
unrest among the masses Is increas
ing. The internal fate of Germany
continues to tremble in the balance
and the struggle between the forces
of order and anarchy will be protract
ed. The final decision probably viii
not come for five or six weeks. The
subsidence of Germany's Chauvinistit
attitude on the DanZig question
caused increased confidence on the
Berlin Bourse, prices showing 9
strong upward tendency.
On the other hand, the most serious
news Of the day is the outbreak Of
general strike in Augsburg, Bavaria
as demonstration in favor of the i'm
mediate Introduction of a soviet re
public in Bavaria. Thousands OF
workers at a mass meeting in. Augs
burg were aroused to a frenzy of en-
thusiasm by Bolshevist demagogues
who shouted in favor Of "The Third
Revolution"