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FOOD AND WAR 



■I FAMINE CONDITIONS 



HI F000 SHORTAGE APPROACHES FAMINE POINT 



H SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE 



HI SUFFICIENT PRESENT FOOD SUPPLY BUT FUTURE SERIOUS 



THE BOUNDARY LINES OF" EUROPEAN NATIONS AS DRAWN BY THE GAUNT HAND 



OE HUNGER 



the poor, who have been reduced for 

 more than two years to charity rations 

 and starving conditions. 



Added to these appalling conditions, 

 the Germans have stripped most of the 

 factories in the conquered countries of 

 their raw material, thus depriving the in- 

 dustrial classes of their sole means of 

 livelihood. Picture the despair created 

 by this paranoiac action that has first 

 robbed its victims of all their capital, 

 then, by supporting the conquering hordes 

 on the scant native food supplies, forced 

 upon the inhabitants the most hideous of 



all forms of suffering — starvation — and 

 then used their starvation to break up 

 families, deporting members to reinforce 

 the depleted industrial ranks of the ag- 

 gressors ; and finally has drawn around 

 this suffering of thirty millions of inno- 

 cent victims a steel curtain, so that the 

 world cannot look on to sympathize or 

 relieve, and you have a sum total of 

 mental and physical anguish that staggers 

 the senses. 



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