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Show 10 GERMAN CITIES IN CLASH OVER SAUERKRAUT Imperial Government Accused Ac-cused of Theft in Fight Over Food. By Special News Service. MUNICH, May 6. A serious conflict con-flict over sauerkraut baa broken out between the Bavarian government ana the Imperial food commission in Berlin. Ber-lin. The matter led to excited debates de-bates In the lower house of the Bavarian Ba-varian parliament. Several deputies hotly charged the imperial government govern-ment with theft, and the prime minister, min-ister, Count Dr. von Hertllng, and the minister of the Interior ' were instructed in-structed to send a protest "with teeth In it" to Imperial Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. Last December, when It became evident evi-dent Uiat the potato supply was Insufficient, In-sufficient, the municipal food commission com-mission of Munich decided to prohibit the export of sauerkraut In February Febru-ary the commission learned that the central commission in Berlin had ordered or-dered the confiscation of about 950 tons of sauerkraut in factories and wholesale houses of the Bavarian capital. cap-ital. The municipal authorities and the Bavarian government at once Instructed In-structed the manufacturers and dealers deal-ers not to ship their confiscated stocks, but this request was Ignored, as the Berlin commission was paying pay-ing much more than the maximum price fixed for Munich. An order to the railroads not to transport the confiscated con-fiscated sauerkraut came too late. The ravished sauerkraut was already across the border and well on its way to hungry Benin. Hot telegrams and official letters were exchanged between Munich and j Berlin, and the imperial commission i finally announced that no more of the precious sauerkraut would be con-1 fiscated tn Munich or any other part i of Bavaria. ' . In the meantime manufacturers and , dealers demanded that the maximum sauerkraut price for Munich be Increased In-creased to the level of thst paid by the Berlin commission, when tins demand wag rejected the dealers refused re-fused to sell their stock. When the matter waa brought up In the diet, the minister of the j interior inte-rior reported he had requested ,,e Central commission In Berl n i to either return or replace the P'l'"" iauerkraut. Several of the deputies attacked the Berlin government savagely sav-agely The Socialist leader. E. Schmidt said: . "The imperial government solemnly solemn-ly promised not to interfere with our ood regul.tlon. and not to take away our supplies, and now it has stolen almost our entire stork of sauerkraut sauer-kraut How ran we trust the .licta-u"m .licta-u"m Beriln any 'JZ tion is the greatest sranda I of the war. Such anarchy cannot be tolerated toler-ated While we have to go without, sauerkrsBt. our stolen supplies have E"offerei by the Imperial, commis-iufn commis-iufn "" other Bsvarian communities which did not want them at all. That nroves the utter demoralization of the .ffoleVystem of food distribution." |