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Show GERMANY FACES PROSPECT OF P00IICR0P City Folk Must Trarel In-. In-. to Country or Pay Prof iteer Prices BERLIN. Sept li (By A. Pi-Germany's Pi-Germany's food situation has reached what waa called the -bagman" stags I the Rueslaa "collapse. City folks must now travel te the country and get their foodstuffs, unless they want to pay the tortiqriste prices aakad by food secuTstora. ' Suburban trains are crowded by men and women carrying vegeta-blea vegeta-blea milk, butter, meat and other supplies which local retallere In almost al-most sll German cltlee are unable te provide under present conditions. Farmers who hsve food suppllea Insist In-sist upon payment In foreign money. As retallera must sell for German psper marks, thalr buslasss Is at a stsndatlll. ' A wcll-Sreseed mas whe waj walking along Inter del Linden Tarrying an expensive alligator rsss found himself recently the center of an envloua group when Hla u Kiteai one 1 and tOtatfej rolled out ever Berlln'a moot faoh j tenable boulevard Berlin householders are already1 b-gtnnlng to seek their winter aup-ply aup-ply of vegetable and fd acouta are traveling throughout the potato po-tato dlatrlcta making ton tract a for families. Field workers' atrlkoa and a cold, ralnr aprlng tho eoM-oat. eoM-oat. wrteat aprlng In some' 200 yeare have materially affected Oermanyo m harvest, which otherwise oth-erwise would have been about tho average, according to reporta from the agricultural dlatrlcta Pntatoea Oermanva chief fmode. and tn many families fully as Important aa meat and egga anJ milk, were aet back bv tho cold weather, and proepeete for tho late crop are not at all encouraging, the aarlculturlate report. Oormany haa been Importing potatoea from Holland Hol-land and otker nearby countries for months In efforts te relievo tha shortage. |