"Food is dear and scarce. Butter costs 4s. 2d. a lb.; lard, 7s. 6d.; and goose fat 

 os. lOd. Dinner for two at the hotel, with a bottle of ordinary Rhine wine, costs 14s. 

 6d.; yet so little did we get that two hours later we were very hungry and paid 4s.2d. 

 for some small pieces of bread and butter, with salmon and ham upon them, and two 

 cups of coffee." 



"We stopped in Berlin for some four days. Private motor-cars no longer run 

 there. In Wertheim's stores you see two notices. One of them states that on account 

 of want of string, packets cannot be tied up, and the other that small parcels cannot 

 be sent home owing to lack of employees. Women work as conductors on tramways 

 and on the underground railway, and I saw 20 or 30 women with spades and other 

 implements digging at the works connected with the new railway tunnel under the 

 Friedrichstrasse." 



"K." Bread 



Five per cent, of potato meal must be added to rye bread. A larger addition is 

 permitted, but in this case the bread must be distinguished by the letter K,* and if 

 more than 20 per cent, is added the amount of addition must also be marked on the 

 bread. 



The making of potato bread is not due to a lack of grain, for, owing to the prohibi- 

 tion of its use as fodder, we have quite enough for our requirements without the wheat 

 hitherto imported, but to the fact that the greater durability of grain in contrast to the 

 perishable potato makes it particularly suitable for storing as provision for the 

 future. The use of potatoes in bread-making increases the consumption of potatoes 

 instead of grain and so makes a saving of grain possible." — German Report. 



*K here stands for Kartoffel (potato), but the bread is often called Kriegskot (war 

 bread). 



Great Loss of Men Will Defeat Germany 



Paris, Feb. 8. — In an interview published in La Liberte, a well-known manufacturer 

 who has just returned from internment in Germany throws new light on the economic 

 situation in the Empire. He says: 



"Germany has never lacked a supply of copper. She found a two-year supply in 

 the invaded regions of France. In order to hoard up her own resources she stopped the 

 exploitation of her own iron mines, and is working the French mines exclusively. From 

 these she has withdrawn a vast stock equalling the amount ordinarily dug up in ten years 

 under French methods in peace times. 



"Wheat is very scarce in Germany, but potatoes and other vegetables are very 

 abundant and cheap. Meat is extremely scarce, but coal is plentiful and relatively 

 cheap. 



"It must not be expected that Germany will succumb to economic pressure. She 

 will be defeated only by the loss of untold thousands of men, a loss which is already 

 acutely felt throughout the nation. 



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