FIRST UNCENSORED REPORT OF
GERMAN FOOD SITUATION.
RICH VS. POOR
In letters which ought to have reach
ed you, one at the end of November
and the other about Christmas, I ex
plained that the economic situation in
Germany 'is geting steadily worse.
it would be no exaggeration to say
that one can now see fresh deteriora
tion every week, and the pace down
hill is getting faster. Both the German
people and the German army on the
Western front have in the last few
months expcriencd very considrable
changes for the worse. I have always
as you know warned the Allies againpt
over-opt'imism regarting the economic
situation in Germany, but there really
does not seem to be much need of
warning now .
This is the first time that I have
been in Cologne since September 1914.
What a change! I have come here
from a leisurely tour of more than a
dozen leading German centers. It 'is
not only my impression, but that of
Gennian friends who are in a position
to know the facts as to the food sup
ply, that Germany is faced by the
prospect of being unable to continue
the struggle unless, as people suggest
here, she really raids Denmark or Hol
land or both for meat, corn, butter and
dil.
It is rather difficult to give & dear
picture of the German situation in let
ters that must necessarily be as short
as posiblc owing to the great difficulty
of getting any written matter out of
the country, even by the means at my
disposal, l.et me say first that thru
out my tour 1 have not heard of any
actual starvation.
Every baby, at least every baby un
der two years of age, gets sufficient
milk, except in the principle munitions
areas, where so much milk from the
surrounding districts is converted in
to glycerine. Invalids are suffering,
but those, who have money can, on
medical certificates, obtain permis
sion to go to Switzerland, Holland or
Denmark for fixed periods. Hut the
rich do not really suffer at all. Mov
ing .about and living in the circles to
which you know I belong, 1 have been
subjected only to the great annoyances
of the ticket system. As much as pos
sible I stay with friends, and with rare
exceptions 1 have always found them
well supplied. This of course applies
especially to people in the country,
who, whatever the regulations may be,
draw upon their own 'ive stock, poul
try and game.
The position of the general popula
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I small, is deplorable. There is a great
ueal of complaining, and of late the
uispuics between the various authori
ties of flic various States, have in
creased in intensity. There is also
j great bitterness as between the eoun
| try and the towns, and in any parti
1 euiar town 1 have been to.'d that some
omer town is llowing with milk and
noticy, aliho 1 have been about tier
many enough to know better. The
complaints against the country people
arc doubtless Justified, by their great
er possibilities of hoarding food, the
| possession of which they do not dls
| ciose. Vet it would be a great mistake
to exaggerate the practical effect of
the prevailing distress. It seems to me
llial nothing is more striking than the
way in which the docility of all the
licrmun tribes, Prussian, Saxons, Ba
varians .and the rest, positively in- |
creases with the decrease of strngth
caused by' lack of food.
1 spent Christmas day at 's
house, where there was a large family
gathering. .My host who certainly i
owned more than a million of marks
i before the War, lias multiplied his for
j tune by live during the war. Twelve
| of us sat down to dinner. It consisted j
of smoked salmon, smoked eels, a
j good meat soup, venison, two geese,
| Gruyere cheese, and any amount id
j sweets. We drank Burgundy that had I
| been pillaged from Belgium, sparkling
| Moselle, French Brandy and Swedish
j Punch. We dined at B.20 and We rose
jut it. Tile geese cannot have cost less
|!hati (im 50 pf ($1.50) per pound. Now
I know that less than five miles from
where we were sitting, people were
scrambling for something called soup,
or for penny bowls of potatoes. Next
morning as I drove through the snow1
to the Hallway Station and saw lines
of people waiting for their daily dole
of potatoes, soup or bread my guilty
feelings were not enviable.
1 do not see how Germany is to con
tinue without securing leather, us you
well know boots have been now put on
the card system. I was in Beilin on 1
what was apparently the last day of I
the sale without cards. People crowd
ed tho front of the shops, and had to
lie dispersed by the police when the
shops closed. Outside one of the shops
in the Leipzigerstrasse thero was a
great fight. Everybody wanted to get
boots, no matter what kind or size, and
men even bought women’s boots, tho
idea being that it would be possible
to change them later. It was however
promptly announced that in the future
hoots would not tie changed without
a special permit. Velvet and silk can
still be bought without cards. Com
modities that are thus free are shown
in ttie shop windows with tho mark
“Ohne" (without) which means that
they can be had without tickets.
Tho potato rations vary in different
places and in many the ration is well
under six pounds per head per week,
and often mixed with turnip. The
bread which improved considerably
some time ago is now generally as
bad as ever,—tho old sodden potato
bread—which together with the acorn
coffee and saccharin, produces inter
nal irritation and indigestion.;
When I last wrote I was able to get
chocolate quite earfi’y, most of it
Dutch or Swiss, and also cocoa. This
morning 1 spent half an hour trying
to liny chocolate in Cologne, hut could
only find an ornamental composition
which was called chocolate and was
20m ($5.00) per pound.
My Journey occupied much longer
than I expected, because the whole
German railway system is disorganiz
ed by the shortage of coal. Th'is is
partly duo to labor difficulties,—in
spite of the release of labor by the
military authorities for work in the
mines—partly In tho vast increase in
the amount of coal needed by muni
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ing quantity sent to Switzerland in
exchange for food. Many trains have
been stopped altogether and ordinary
travelling is ol course rendered more
dilficult by tile priority given to
troop and transjsjrt trains. Women
are acting as porters and train at
tendants—the latter dressed in neat
knickerbockers. In Berlin they have
rather coquettish divided skirls. The
public have long become accustomed
to carrying their own baggage. At
the railway stations 1 have seen few
horse-drawn cabs and hardly un\ taxi
cabs.
Nevertheless at several places on
my journey 1 saw new railway lines
undtg construction and much other
public work going on as usual. At
one place I drove along a road border
ing a lonsideiable stretch of new raiV
way line, and noticed that all tin*
workers were Russian and French
prisoners guarded by very old soldiers
and very young ones, the latter not
being allowed to go to the front at
as early an age as was formerly the
case.
It Is Hie as stated m the English
and French papers which are sold
here as freely as heretofore, that the
diet of the army remains as it was.
There an hitter grumblings from the
soldiers hack from the eastern front,
and the soldiers returning from the
Sonina- and Verdun (known as lie
"grave” I eomplain of increasing
diminution in the mixture of buttei
and margarine served oul to them.
These pool fellows are no longer the
in-roes that they were last year "Keln
Flats" (No room) 1 heard an elderly
man who was acting as* train conduc
tor bark, out gruffly to two tired
soldiers hcnVily Indened with all their
trench i-i|iiipme:it, who had obvious
ly arrived in Rerlin on leave.
The military are everywhere as
usual, hut there is no military spirit
left in any of the c'lties I have vis
ited. The (Senium people generally a re,
sick of the war. Their only comfort
is the belief that food prices and
scarcity in Russia. England aid
France are worse than in Germany,
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