Show SHORTAGE CAUSED RETREAT lack of food and shortage of am caused germans german to yield ground rotterdam then seems to be lit lib tie doubt that the german retirement retire meni 1 in the western theater of the war wat wai due largely to the subsistence lm lam with which the army had bad beer wrestling tor for some borne time owing to thi rapid advance authoritative information describe 1 ing conditions at the trout Indica indicates tei that the troops subsisted largely or the food which they commandeered commandeer ci and la in triana cases basea lived ou on dr bread for more than a week was especially the case with ibos advancing by way of belgium kllc were obliged to fall back further that than those in the south it Is also learned that for a time the amm ammini ton ion supply was not 41 to the c consumption on confidence that these condl Moi I 1 can be remedied la is responsible foi fo the optimism with which the altug tion to la regarded by germans |