Show SHORTAGE CAUSED RETREAT lack of food and shortage of ammunition caused germans to yield ground rotterdam there seems to be little doubt that the german retirement in the western theater of the war was due largely to the subsistence problem with which the army had been wrestling for some time owing to the rapid advance authoritative information describing conditions at the front indicates that the troops subsisted largely on the food which they commandeered and wid in many cases lived on drybread for more than a week thi this was especially the case with those advancing by way of belgium who were obliged to tall fall back further than those in the south it is also learned that for n time the ammunition supply was not equal to the can consumption confluence that these conditions can be remedied is responsible for the optimism with which the situation is regarded by germane germans |