Show t 1 STARVATION STARVATION IN GERMANY PROVEN Woman Interned Until Uni i f Recently Tells of Conditions as She Saw Them e L HEALTH J OF PEOPLE PEON IMPURE IMPAIRED 4 t tf She for or Germany t ti to f Impossible Says SaY Out Much Long Longer Food er Food Hold bid Out Much Becoming Worse Riots Are 4 and Worse London t That It Is Impo impossible for foi Germany to hold out much longer ithe i Is s 1 the considered opinion of the wife o ol olan of r an nu Englishman who for the whole period of the war up till now has b beet bee en Interned ll nt at and find who herself her bet L. self within the last two or three e weeks weel s has been heen permitted b bv by the German Gernian an au c to return to the land lund of her hei herr r birth Her lIeI knowledge of G Germany I is F. F j especially thorough u as she she has resided reside resided who wIlo was s J there with her husband i t with a n commercial hou house e for fot nearly t twenty tent ent y years ears years n and Hl her n account count r of the conditions ns of the country c whet when J t she left last month mouth Js Is isso so balanced bala ced ant and i to ft full ll conviction I restrained as to carry of Us truth luth The he people she said are starving f ing lug and yet Jet most of or them think thus that f If they hold hoW out they will be the vIeS vien vIe vic S n tors Only defeats on OD the battlefield t will bring it home homo to them that their starving Is no good and then they the T will turn round upon government J My husband and I after so long a a sta stay In Germany were on the point of returning g to to England in September broke out in August Au Au- 1 1914 1014 when then the war 1 f. f gust and then there was no chance to ft get get fi 8 away We had to give up our om t pretty home and md go Into the thc interior i of the country countr whence he was taken rr to where he ho has hns been ever since For the first two years wives i A J i situated like myself were not allowed to see se their husbands and It was not until June 1916 1016 that I r I Imet met mine fortine for fort forthe t the tine first time there after his arrest You Youcan Youcan can cnn perhaps imagine the shock I goti got i when I saw sa him again thin again thin and hol hol- fi i low low cheeked as fiS he had lost 45 pounds Ir r i while in iu the camp After that we wo were allowed to visit every three months it r w- w for two ho hours rs which was better than thans s nothing at all especially to me as I r. r had imd a brother also there and many J others I knew ro Money Is Held Hel BackI Back i I held out as long as I possibly could because then I could occasionally occasional ly Jy see sec my husband and besides I had mon money which as soon boon as I I ca came e over the frontier I had not No one one was r allowed to take out of the country l more than marks which should be worth 50 but when I crossed the r change came to not much more than 25 Thanks to the tIle help of pf friends I am nm now being financed in a small way ny but I am only too thankful for 7 this because e things are so distressing distressing- distressingly ly bad In Germany that I am much afraid arald we sho should ld be starving if we still stills s- s were there The food riots are becoming becom becom- r 1 tug ing worse and worse and every everyone one knows s no the worst times are yet to come These will be in May and Ju June e z- z until some of the new crops are available available avail avail- i able but put if they eat these as soon as they come out of the ground there will willbe willbe Ill be none for the coming winter And what then 1 I That is why there were many Gerr Germans Ger Gel Sj r mans I knew who envied me e for tor ber beIng being be be- ing trig able to leave the country where r things are going from bad to worse as as the weeks pass on Now it seems i. i the th bread rations have b been en made smaller Instead of larger as ns was vas promised promised prom prom- sed to the people some months ago and it Is less than three and a half halft t pounds a head bead per fortnight and very i P poor P n or stuff at nt that it being made mada chiefly chief chIef- c. c ly Iy of swedes The largest larg st amount of oft t meat allowed per pel head weekly Is oneE one- one E half pound including bone and for tor forthe tort t the last seven months we In did didt t not see nn anything In in the he shape shupe of pork s' s bacon lard or any other fat The Theat at Pat problem of course Is for the GerDan Germans Ger Ger- sinus mans the worst All we s saw In that I way for tor the last seven or eight months n A Was vas about three ounces of butter a ahead aA i y bead head per week and there were many 01 towns that were allowed only half s- s that weight and und even less You can cun J get nothing unless you ou have plenty of money Jam Jam dreadful dreadful stuff it Is Is- Is costs mark marl a pound and one can get only half a n pound of that every evely I c- c fortnight and fortnight and the same with coffee i You can cnn imagine ne that with this t slight amount of nourishment nt the ther r health of the people as us a whole Is R giving way Of courne course the rich can j now and then get extras such as a n nr fr r small fowl of from two and a half hulf to L tl three r e pounds P for or from o to o 53 3 3 while nt ot geese gecse were bought DOU I I 4 it at prices up an to 50 30 and 75 an and d there thele rj r were Its fc who were glad to have hn haver ve r them even ven at that price Foreign lard t ft r can now and again be had bad it lt a pound but there are vcr very few who can con buy that H No More Sugar V All Ail sweet S shops 1 lOpS were were closing closing 1 down donna wh when n I left as ns there was no more sugar augur to make sweetmeats and choc choc- tr t and cocoa cocon were not to be had the last three or four months Milk t was hardly to be had any more and In fact there are ale many towns which have not seen Been a n drop of ot milk for tor i weeks and weeks and when I came TV f L away last month It was public publicly y known that In April and May Muy there e t would be hardly any meat or or- milk to tot t fie e bad had and the shortage would b be beJ J ante Soap Is scarcely to tl be got get and ande Doe e piece of toilet soap costing about t DYNAMITE JOHNNY OBRIEN O'BRIEN Sj ar ara a Y YIt It falls to the lot of few men to celebrate their eightieth birthday much less when a n man has hus led a life Ufe of adventure nd has hns been mixed up in practically every revolution within the thelast thelast thelast last sixty years In Central and South America and has bra braved oed death hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of times But such Is the lot of Capt John Dynamite Johnn Johnny OBrien O'Brien who recently recently recently re re- cel celebrated the tho passing of his eightieth year at the he Hotel notel McAlpIn in New York imle In honor of his birthday birthday birth birth- da day President Menocal l of Cuba ordered ordered ordered or or- dered Victor Hugo Barranco Cuban representative In New York to entertaIn entertain entertain enter enter- tain the captain at an n elaborate dinner din din- ner nerD D Dynamite Johnny was the line real thing in adventure the the dynamite and artist In more than one Honduran Hon- Hon Honduran duran duran Panamanian and Cuban Cu Cu- ban revolution It was he who in 18 6 took toole a shipload of dynamite and munitions to General Garcia G the Cuban He accompanied the late fate General Funston on a n Cuban expedition expedition expedition ex ex- before Funston was Identified with the United States army RIchard Richard Rich RIch- ard lyd Harding Davis vIs and O. O Henry wrote scores of stories with D Dynamite Johnny Johnny Johnny John John- ny as ns the hero half a dollar was nIl allowed owed a month Coals were very short when I left and one could get only a n hundredweIght hundredweight hundredweight hundred hundred- weight at a time and then fetch it oneself and wait waIf two or three hours for It Clothing was also giving out and every article from a n handkerchief to toa toa toa a coat was very scarce while one could not get n a new dress without givIng giving ing lug up an old one In exchange I have met many there who said We cannot exist in this way and we must give In Whoever says we can live on these rations has secret stocks to fallback fall faU fallback back upon That may be so but I Iam Iam am sure the tine German people as a whole do not yet et believe they will be starved into submission I |