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Show HUNGRY HUNS. Taking it for granted that the German Ger-man journalists were correct when they warned Von llindenburg that there would be no food in Germany by May .1, the food situation must be worrying worry-ing the Berlin government even more than the halting of tho armies in France. Some means must be found to stock Germany with food. One of the purposes of the drive was to obtain food supplies in the occupied regions, but the French peasantry drove off their cattle and sheep, while the French and British soldiers destroyed stores of food that could not be carried away. It is reported that Germany has surrendered sur-rendered its claim to the Russian food supply, in recognition of Austria's greater need. If it be true that Austria's Aus-tria's necessities are direr than Germany's, Ger-many's, the Dual Monarchy must be in a condition not paralleled at any time during the war. The allies assumed that the breakdown break-down of Bussia would open up to Germany Ger-many adequate sources of food supply, but whatever evidence has come to us indicates that Russia cannot meet the German needs. Russia's collapse was in all departments. Her railways were not capable of handling the supplies needed in Germany, whereas the Ger-, man railways were taxed to their utmost ut-most capacity to prepare for the kaiser's kai-ser's offensive in France. While it is probably true that Germany Ger-many will get enough fond to stave off starvation, it is probably just as true that millions of Germans will continue to live on rations which will not maintain main-tain vitality at the proper level. One report is that while 40,000,000 Germans have enough food, 25,000,000 are always al-ways on the edge of starvation. |