Show e- e I Hunger and Not Grippe Cause of of Epidemic By ay Associated Press Preas A July 13 The The AMSTERDAM L 1 illness from which thousands thousands thou thou- sands of persons in Grman Gr- Gr man industrial districts are suf suffering sf fering and which has been de described de de- scribed a as Spanish influenza enza is really an illness due duo to hunger and anti consequent exhaustion the says it has learned Jn n various industrial towns the newspaper reports many deaths are occurring and the hospitals are full of ot patients suffering with this malady The German potato ration the newspaper adds adds- has has' been re redu ro- ro du ed to between one and one- one half and two kilograms weekly per person and the new potato crop has not yet been distributed As the result of that situation it is stated various branches of German industry are are being considerably considerably con con- hampered in their work d J |