Show I I I SHORTAGE CAUSED RETREAT Lack of Food and Shortage of Ammunition Am Caused Germans to to Yield Ground Rotterdam There There seems to be little lit m. tie tle doubt that the German retirement in the western estern theater of the war was due largely larely to the subsistence problem problem lem with which the army had been for some time Ume owing tb tk tile the rapid advance Authoritative information describing ing lug conditions conditions at the front indicates that the troops subsisted largely on the food tood which they commandeered and In many cases lived on dry drybread drybread drybread bread for more moro than a week This This was especially the case se with those hose advancing by way of Belgium who were obliged to fall back back further than than those I ir in the south It is Is' also kiso so learned that for tor a time the ammunition supply was not equal to the consumption Confidence that these conditions can be remedied is responsible for forthe forthe forthe the optimism with which the situation situa tion is regarded by Germans I |