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Show BREAD TICKETS IE IffiDJ BEHLIfi Amount of Purchases of the Staff of Life Limited; Corn $3.50 a Bushel. BERLIN", via London, Feb. 6, 10:05 p. m. Bread tickets, upon which a weekly quota of bread or flour can bo drawn, will soon be a feature of life in Berlin. The municipalities of Greater Great-er Bc-rlin today voted unanimously to adopt this measure. The tickets, which will be issued weekly, will be provided with coupons permitting the holder to purchase bread or flour in amounts up to two kilograms (4.50 pounds). Greater Berlin is the, only city in Germany where a limitation on consumption has thus far been adopted. Lieu te nan t-C'olonel Kuhn and five other American army officers, who are acting in the capacity of observers, left last nipbt for a week's trip to 'he western west-ern front, going first to Strassburg and Metz. HAMBURG, via London, Feb. 6, 10:0j p. m. The price of maize has risen here to $'J.50 a bushel, wholesale. Germany's ?upplv heretofore came i-hiefly from the United States, Argentina Argen-tina und Russia, all of which are nov i naeeessible. Moreover, t he covemment has not fixed a maximum j rie, as in the ea'-e of wheat and rye. The price of maizo, thus left to natural forces, has rist-n to almost double the price oi wheat before the government expropriated expro-priated the latter. Oats are now Jl.Ui a bushel, wholesale. |