Show THE REAL FAMINE As 1 een an observer as Frederic Palmer the war correspondent bel eves that Germany is n no danger of a fam ne either now or next year f the war should last so long Germany w 11 have enough food and munit ons to meet the demands of the war but will she have enough men? he asks Perti nency is given to his mq ry by the latest est mate of casualt es It comes froni Copenhagen and fixes the German losses to date at 1 500 000 and the Austrian losses at an equal number and yet the war has not lasted fujly five months It was a art of the German study of warfare to determ ne whether German could carry on a long war if subie ted to such a blockade as now ex 6ts dearth of men did not str ke the m 1 tary experts as be ng a per 1 in any such sense as a lack of food was con s dered to be a peril There would be enough men to carry on a long war b t there might not be even at short ra t ons a suffic ent an ount of food to last from season to season Startl ng reports to the effect that Berl n s starv ng are not to be trustei Germany was prepared at the outset with a sufficient supplj of food to meet all needs unt 1 next y ear s crop should be harvested It s then that the ficrures of the experts w 11 be proved true or false Among those who have recently g ven the subject attent on s Dr St lie a competent German iutb.0 ty He has listed h s conclusions on the subject as follows 1 If suffic ent manual labor s at the d sposal of agr c Itirre the pro duct on of bread gra n h therto ob ta ned will be full sufficient 2 The s rplus in potatoes s so great that t will amplv over any defic t n other foodstuffs 3 As regards the mport of bar ley wh ch s ndeed extens ve a cessat on of such import would merely res It n a red ct on of the production of meat Th s however would not n ean any fam ne as the quantity of meat included n the feeding of man may be greatly d m n shed w thout any danger to 1 fe and health Professor Wilhelm Ostwald points out in Soz ale Prax b that w th n a shorj; t me the ex ptmg vast stretches of the moors and heaths will be cultivated Bavar a has already made a start in this direction The 9 500 000 hectares of cult vatable moor lands could road ly be made to produce a plus of 8 000 000 double hundredwe ghts of meat and other products The well known Munich hvg emst Professor Max von Grube has shown that for the present the demand n albumen s cohered as long as the war may last by a stock of 20 900 000 oxen 5 500 000 sheep 3 500 000 goats and 2d 600 000 p gs |