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Show PEOPLE OF GERMANY SUFFER GREAT WANT Lack of Food Varieties Brings on Afflictions Af-flictions Which Are Particularly Particu-larly Distressing. AMSTERDAM, March 10. The frontier correspondent of the Telegraaf has interviewed inter-viewed a great number of Germans, who all gave a sad description of the situation situa-tion in Germany. Fifty per cent of a.ll the town people are said to be suffering from cardiaigia (heartburn). A terribly high percentage of children are dying, especially in Berlin. The scarcity of milk Is especially great in densely populated districts, and In various towns the authorities have appealed ap-pealed to the surrounding rural districts for a supply of milk. In order to make Marshal von Hinden- burgs appeal to agriculturists as to supplying sup-plying armament workers with fat meat a sinless, aeents are visiting even the smallest pendants for this purpose. One Informant says that It Is rompleiely untrue un-true that the scarcity is only in towns, and that the suffering In rural districts is just as RTeat. The potato famine prevails everywhere, i At Dortmund the potato ration " durlne the la.st six weeks has been reduced to , i thros pounds a head a week. ! The Handelsblad publishes a message from Gennep which says that, according io statements made by German women who come to the town every day, the ' scarcity of food In Germanv has readied such a pitch that the soldiers In Gorh. Clove and Weset go to the houses of the inhabitants asklne for slices of bread wherewith to appease their huncer. Almost Al-most f very day German soldiers desert into Holland. Recently on one day 160 came over the frontier |