Show DISEASE ASE SPREADING i I IN GERMAN CITIES I By International News Service ZURICH Sept 29 The Th The German papers now concede that the lack of proper food tood has caused epidemics of dysentery In many cities and towns In Mannheim l the disease claimed twenty- twenty A large one victims within a a. few days number of ot deaths I Iii la also reported from Hamburg Berlin Danzig Cologne Koenigsberg and other cities The ex exIstence existence ex- ex of the epidemic has repeatedly i been denied by the German govern- govern I ment In some German districts many persons persons persons per per- sons have been killed by eating poisonous poison poison- ous fungi which were gathered by women and children in the forests The most serious case of this kind is reported report report- I ed from Essen where six men four tour women women women- and five children died after a aI ameal I meal of toadstools which had been takI taken taken tak- tak I en for mushrooms |