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German Food Crisis Gets Worse Ration, Now
at Starvation Point, Getting Worse Ukraine
Storehouses Found Empty Offensive
x- Helps Keep Minds off Stomachs.
LONDON, June 8. When
Han8 Schmidt of Berlin
comes downstairs on
!M6nday morning and finds
his Tageblatt lying beside his
plate at the breakfast table,
he does not snatch it up and
read eagerly of colossal vic
tories on the western front.
His first thought is for his
stomach.
Reduction! In ration are fener
fclly announced on Monday morning.
On tha rare occasion when the
frovernment ha a bonus of some
unratlnned food to divide among
Million, of hungry month, it In
on Monday Uiul Uio a lad tidinsa are
printed. Bo Schmidt' eye travel
up ana down the rolumna, hla brow
contracting, until he read of trans
port confusion In the Ukraine that
will hold up food shipments Indefin
itely. He throw the paper down1
With a curao. Then he pick It up
again, shamefacedly. He ha failed
In hla duty as a patriot. He ha for
gotten to road Ludandorffa bul
letin. The paper fallen to the floor, he
work out on the bark of an envel-
' ope what he will be permitted lo
eat, the flrat week In April If he
ran get te Ha know thai, some
of the food he la "allowed" cannot
bo bought.
Flrat, the bread ration of four
pounda four and a ouarter ounce
remains unchanged. Thl oomCHut
. at about ten ounce a day; Hnhmldl
console hlmelf with Die thought
that In I'arU the brend ration 1 the
iune. but he alio reflect that the
black? atlcky aubatance he eala 1 not
what he would get In ths mile res
tuurant he know on the seine
that will never allow hla bulky fornv
or that of any other Herman, to dar
, aen Ita dooratep attain.
o, irn oxk noon, 1
Jl'ICV IH.KItSTICK.
) Bchmldt majr eat during the week
Ight and tHree-fnurtha ounce of
meat, That la halt an ounce more
' than ha Rot, the month before, but
lie doe not foel elated. "One good
teak,", ha mutter. Schmidt, for
three rear ha never had a pound
of meat In a tingle week. For two
year ha ha been down to ten
ounce or lea. He wonder whether
he fool the lack of meat ao much, a
mat or butter, hi card, ne rinu.
allow htm for thla woek 1.17 ounce
of butter, l it ounce of margarine,
a total of 3.46 ounce of fat.
Bchmldt 1 alck of potatoes. He
vow he will never look at a potato
again, after tha war Nevertheless,
he shudder aa he think of the
warning he haa heard whispered
that tha potato crop of ltlt will he
si failure, and that meanwhile the
ration of seven pounds ten and a
half ounces, that ha continued for
many week, will be further re
duced. For Bchmldt and the rest of
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the Germnn civilian practlcnlly ox
lit on potatoes. Hchmldt has more
than a pound a day at prent of po
tntes; without them he could soine
ly live; Germany owe all her suc
cesses In thla war to the potato.
Take away the potato, und nlti
would have to sue- for pence In u
week-
The rest of Schmidt's weekly die
tary he know by heart. lie Rets
2.38 ounce of grosts. 117 ounce of
farinaceous food; 2 02 ounce of nr
tlflclal "honey," 8 75 ounce of hud
Jam substitute to smear on hie
worse bread. Hut hi fuce llnhts ul
a he remembers thai thin In egg
week. Kvery oilier wei-k Sclimlilt
gets one c nx. Sometime t Isn't very
good, then tragedy nettles down over
the houHehold. And that Is all
Schmidt ha to eat.
The scale of ration upon which
Schmidt drags out an exlsierice la
Ihut at present obtaining In Herlin.
llefore mo lie a table, compiled
from official Monroe here, showing
the siippllc of food doled out to the
peoplo In all part of lliu (lerniau
empire. Thl table I believed to be
entirely accurate; the way In whlcli
information I obtained here about
the smallest detnlls of dully life lo
every nook and corner of ilentianv
will muke a thrilling lory, when II
can bo told,
rntfiMN has nKTrirrt
I AlllC THAN CHI I U.S.
The tuhle ihow that Rehinldl le
rather lucky In his place of renl
denee. The kalner's capital Is better
served, for food, than most other
parts of his dominion. In ilreelau.
for Instanre. the weekly average
ajiinblned, butter and marKurln ra
tion In March worked nut at I 05
ounces: no other fats were supplied,
excepting those foutul In the eltflit
and tbree-fourts ounce of meat
entun weekly. The result of this sort
of diet Is an epidemic of huiiKer
disease. Throughout all Germany,
the fat ration averages' less than In
Berlin; for Instance, It Is 2.19 ounces
In Alx-la-Chapelle, 3,20 ounces In
Hresdcn, 210 ounces In Frankfurt,
3.4S ounces In Ilremcn, the sumo In
Hamburg and Kiel, 1.74 ounces I"
Munich,' Berltn, with Its half an I'KK
weekly, 1 not so well off aa Munich
and Hluttgart, whore the people en
Joy a whole eKK, but in Frankfurt
and Dresden only one egg a month
la- available.
Throughout the German Kmplre,
tha potato ration Is now seven
pounda ten and a half ounces every
where, excepting In MugdeburK,
where the people have only six
pound nine ounces. The normal
meat ration, eight and three auar-
1,'ter ounce for each person per
week, varle more, wnere the al
lowance of freah meat falls frreatly
below thl figure, a few ounces of
sausage are generally allowed. For
Instance, Duaseldorf gives only 6.IJ
ounces of fresh meat, but supple
ment thla with 2.91 ounce of sau
sage. Fish Is doled out sparingly;
there I none at all In moat cltle
tor the covollana, the North ca
catches going to the army, but at
Charlottenburg and Dusseldorf, one
tin of aardlne every three week 1
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It will be noon that German civil
ians, living on Ihe wale nf rations I
have .discussed, are verv close to
starvation. flencn the I.udrndorff
offetm.ve to compel an early peace;
hence ihe political peace nianeonVers
that will come when the offensive
fa.Ha; hence the horror and despair
that are creeping through Germany
today as the news is whispered that
the war must ro on, and that the ra
tions of the necessaries of life must
be further cut down.
No allied military success of the
war, It Is said here, caused such dls
trcNs In (ieriiiuny as an Inspired an
nouncement made In Hreaden by
Heir Ituppreclit, of tha war food
board on April 17. The speaker
said that posxtbly the iTead ration,
and perhaps also to a small extent
the potato ration, will have to be
temporarily reduced, unions the sup
plies from the Ukraine arrive in
Kood time, and sufficient quantity.
The rationing of bread, and meat, he
addd, must continue for years. 80
Kietit was the hubbub raised over
this threat to the two food that
mainly keep the people alive, hreail
and potatoes, that an official denial
was soon put out to allay alarm.
The .war food board In Ilerlln de
clared that "Ihe assertion are not
correct. The bread ration will not
be reduced for the present. The wsr
rood hoard hopes to mannge wltn
the existing stocks. There is no
Idea of (educing the potato ration
since last year's good crop guaran
tees a weekly supply of seven pounds
a bead ner week until the new har
vest." The phrase "for the present''
us applied to the bread supply makes
the denial meaningless, while avail
able statistics do not Indicate that
tha potato rntlon can be Continued
many week longer.
The meat ration, tnor may be cut
down. The Imperial meat office Is
planning measure agani.it the
agrarian clas for not supplying the
communal food organization with
cattle. The agrarian reply that they
haven't got the rattls, which were
killed month ago because of lack of
fodder. The Imperial fond offlro In
answer to thla points nut "that a suf
ficient delivery will have to be en
forced, as the meat ration cannot bo
further reduced."
Cattle or no rattle, meat must be
furnished, because German official
doiu d orders. There seems some
thing wrong In the logic of this
reasoning, and the Saxona so dis
covered on April 13. when the meat
ration, which "cannot ho reduced
wua reducod. The Saxon meat of
fice was compelled to announce,
"that at the moment the principle
that ' the needs nf the army at the
front must be met counts mors than
ever before. Thla ha led to tem
porary stoppage In tli supply of
cattle for tha civilian population,
which has forced the Nnxnn meat
office to Issue an order to all com
munal unions for two weeks not to
distribute more than five ounces of
fresh meat, Including sausage."
SAXONY AXD CSSFr,
riLUTlCAMA' WITHOUT MEAT.
Conignment of cattle from Sax
ony and the C'assel districts failed to
n .--I., - L' ...... 1. r . nn a... II 1Q
and the meat ration thero Is now
down to six and one-half ounces a
week, of which' one mid one-half
ounce Is sausage.
In Munich, the meat ration Is al
ready admittedly destined to be de
creased. The official explanation
declares: "This Is due to the re
duced weight nf animals In conse
quence" of the absvnso of concen
trated fodder, and also to the in
creased demand for meat by the
troops, who need more meat In the
present open warfare than In. trench
wnrfare."
Kxample and complaints could be
multiplied from all over Germany
to show how the food crisis, already
stretched to tha extreme limit In the
opinion of the people, Is teudliy
getting worse, llut German organi
zation manages to supply the pub
lic with small qusotlties of tho nec
essaries of life; it Is far different in
unhappy Austria, where actVwl fam
ine exists In many districts It Is
impossible to study the food Condi
tlons In that country, In the light of
data available here, without com Ins'
to the conclusion that the dual mon
archy is undoubtedly doomed to rev
olution ami anarchy. The statis
tics I have obtained for Austria are
not so complete as thos covering
Germany, but In the localities to
which they refer theyVrevisjtl hor
rors formerly existing oiii fam
ine districts of India ami IChina.
Jn I'rugup, the food Itureau an
nounced,, on April. 7 thnt no bread
at all would be supplied to persons
having Incomes of more than ISOO
n year. "Since the' other articles of
food are absolutely unobtainable,
how are the people to exist ?" asked
a deputation which waited on tho
authorities. people whoso yearly
Incomes are not more than J300 will
get a loaf of bread a week; those
who earn from $.100 to JS00 a year
may have half a loaf. This measure
speaks for Itself, u Is an attempt
to prevent the submerged class.
which is literally starving- from
revolution bv according It the fa
vor of a morsel of bread when there
Is not enoiiKh to go around. As for
the rest of ihe people, the food bu
reau declares it will make, all poss.
ble effor's to supply the people with
potatoes or some other bread sub
stitute." If tbere Is no bread In Tragus, for
the "rich'' who earn more than 115
a week, they arc not likely to use
their wealth to buy meat. On April
20. after two breadless weeks, a
Prague newspaper announced, "Thbj
week I'raguo received one calf for
the whole population of the city."
The famine conditions are not con
fined to lloheiuta; from Gullcia.
whence little Information reaches
the nutsbln world. the follow.lni;
Coptic but suggestive report has
been received. "Flour and bread are
not on sale at Lembcrg. The food
office has been unable for the last
week to give full weight for the
heavy workers' bread cards. The
town authorities have decided to act
on their own responsibility, and,
evading ths grain trade office regu
lationa, procure supplies."
ntRAIVK KTORKIIOVKF.
PJIOVKS KMITV CHEST.
To ths anguished population of
Austria Hungary, and Germany too,
the boil nil I ess food resource nf the
Ukraine have seemed like the pot of
gidd at the rainbow' end; the Ig
norant peasants talk of the grain
ami cattle of this land that they
think has been delivered to them for
plunder much aa our ancestors
spoke of the mysterlona Indies
where the rock were of gold.
The food. supply of the Ukraine
has become one of the capital facts
nf the war. If German and Aus
trian dreams are realizable, tha Uk
raine can prolong the war Indefin
itely, llut it is now known here,
ond of course to Informed enemy
circles, that the Ukraine 1 a disap
pointment, like the submarine. This
knowledge Is being kept from the
people, whose outburst of despair
when they realize there Is no hope
for more food I feared by the rulers
of 'both central empires. lr. Fritz
Werthelmer, sent Into the Ukraine
lo study the prospects of obtaining
food, dispatched from Kief on April
2 the following report of what he
found there, which must have
mightily distressed ths (iernian and
Austrian food dictator when It
reached them:
"I have returned from a two days'
Journey of over 120 miles through
sgricultural and domain land In the
Kief government, during which I
Inspected sugar factories, country
(owns, villages, and two or the large
Ukranintan estates. In-general my
tour confirmed the Impressions ob
tained at Kief from Innumerable
conversations with experts. The!
hope of the central power for a
quid pro quo in exchange for the
military help given to the republic
are to some extent negatived by the
actual position of affairs. In silos
and store houses there are lit I'M
ent no supplies to get. tuiiihtless
the peasants have , considerable
quatltltles. but these' are already
much reduned and grow dally lc-a.
owing to the regrettable practice of
feeding the animals with tbe lies!
seed, ond also owing to the secret
still which almost every household
possesses. Thero Is more drunken
ness In the country than ever Thous
and of tons of grain are thus wast
ed.
"Apart from the question of Im
mediate deliveries, the prospects for
the autumn, ami the coming harvest
year, are disiu)ctin,r. 1 rue, ine
winter seed was well scan by' big
land owners and peasants, and has
come well through the winter. Win
ter crops were cultivated largely,
and me 45 per cent of the cultiva
table land was thus used. Tbe prob
lem Is wl'ial the harvest will be like
The Socialist attempt to seize all
landed property led In January to
a peasants' war. In which Irrepara
ble damage was done, t 'a sties and
mansions were pillaged and burned,
farm bouses robbed and reduced
to ashes. Machines have been de
stroyed or damaged.
"Iiraught and breeding animals
and valuable oxen have been stolen
and for the most part slaughtered.
stallions scattered, seed plantations
for grain H-mrTont crops destroyed.
Of the 45 farm houses on the Ilra
nltzka estate only 12 remain, of tho
80 on 1'rlce ItadziwIU'a estate only
10 or 12. On the later the total loss
Is reckoned at 110.000.000.
"It Is therefore questionable how
Ihe harvest can he carried out.
Particularly difficult will be spring
cultivation, for which, under local
climatic condition, only three weeks
at the most are available.
"There seem, despite tha heavy
losses, to be plenty of men about,
but they stand idle. The Innd la ton
wet. they say; only recently has good
weather set In. and today's work Is
beginning everywhere. The peas
snts' estates are in good condition:
tho peasant will no doubt euftlvate
his own original land, but It is less
rertain that he will cultivate the
ownerless land of the big estates.
So far there have been discussions
by rural committees and meetings of
peasants aa to how to do this. Noth
ing has been done.
"It Is too soon to give any fig
ure as to any surplus of grain for
export this year, or even next, and
of course in 1919 the fruits of last
autumn's winter cultivation on the
estates will no longer be available
Kven though It may be supposed
that the district shown us by the
great land owners suffered more
than most, yet we shall do well not
to set too great hopes on tho Uk
raine for the near future."
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United State Tire Company Confb
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Supply lx-mand.
Famine in Palm-Leaf
Fans Imminent; War
Blamed for Shortage
Among all of the threatened
famines brought about by war
conditions, a palm-leaf fan famine
is lo bs expected, according to
a report from Consul General
George K. Anderson, Hongkong,
China.
"One of the lines of export of
some moment from Hongkong to
the United States which has been
temporarily destroyed by high
freight rates and the high ex
change vaiue of silver Is that of
pntm-lenf fans." says Mr. Ander
son. "Only 157 packages of these
fans were exported to the United
States In 1!17 as compared with
5 028 In 1916 and H.571 in 1915.
Tho common fai .ire simply the
trimmed leaf and atom of the or
dinary small palm which grows
wild In most districts of South
China. If It is allowed to do so,
but usually for the fan trade Is
grown In low-lying grounds In the
San Will district of the Pearl river
delta In Kwangtung province .
one of the four districts from
which most nf the Chinese In, the
United States originally emigrate.
When thus ctiltlvatM or grown
the palms are thickly sown, vary
ing, according to method follow
ed, from 5.000 to 10.000 plants to
an acre, the fewer the plants the
better the return In high-grade
leaves.
"It requires about seven years
to grow tbe palms to the size
necessary for good fan leaves and
after that they furnish an annual
crop Indefinitely, the Chinese stat
ing that the trees live for hun
dred of years, producing their an
nual crop. An old tree will pro
duce leaves ss large as five feet
In length with a breadth Just
above the lower end of perhaps
three feet."
The attitude of the United States
Tire company with regard to the
situation created by tbe govern
ment' regulation of crude rubber
Importation Is set forth In the fol
lowing letter Just Issued by that com
pany to the trade:
,"A there have been many rumors
recently, of varying nature, regard
ing the effect on the production and
upply of tire, due to the govern
ment regulation nf crude rubh.r
Importation, and policies adopted by
some people in tbe trade, which do
not seem to reflect the true situa
tion, we will give herein some facts
as we see them, which we believe
will be acceptable to dealers.
"In order to conserve boat ton-,
nage for military requirements, the,
government has restricted Ihe im-1
portatlnn of crude rubber, tho pres
ent order In effect to cover a period
of three months at which time
further consideration of the matter
will bo given covering another pe-i
rind I
"The rubber on hand In this roiin
,., .,...n,r with that en route
Is sufficient to take rare of normal;
requirements, covering the flri pe
riod of restriction, and If the trade
and public will refuse to become
"panlckv." due to nil e"rts of nr.
mors, and refrain from over-huvlnij i
or hoarding, It Is the best belief of,
this romp.mv that unless some tin-,
foreseen circumstances arise, it will
v.. . K- i.ns.-llile for the tire pro.
ductlon of this country to take enre
of the needs of the trade, and pub-
lie for tbe present year. :
"Aile-inn'n s'ocks to take rare or
nil requirements should be earned
by dealers, but there Is no reason
elsiine .it Ibis time for loading up
Levond normal requirements, either)
because of an. Immediate possible
shortage, or for liny reason that we.
ran now roresee.
Tills Is a time when the rapacity
of the tire manufacturer should be
used to make sizes and styles which
are going to be required by dealers
wl'hln a rcnsonable penorl of time,
and w" would caution our customers
lo place orders for their require
ments well In advance In older thnt
we rnav shape our production to
what will actually be required. In
stead of using materials, labor and
capacity to a certain extent In mak:
Ing sires and styles whlrh would
necessarily have to be carried on
hand f ir an unreasonable period of
time "
Heading Matter Wanted.
A call for reading matter
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