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Show F000 SUPPLY OEM'S MOST SERIOUSPROBLEM B 1'coplo on SlMirt Itntlons, lint Not H Vet Stalling; While Situation V .Mny .ot (ii'nw Worse, It Is L'n- B likely to linpi'ove. H Geneva, Switzerland, Fob. 18. ftpE The food situation In Ocrtnany may bV not grow worse, but It scarcely can kpj liccomo bettor. This Is tho out- ftpj standing feature of Germany's groat problem. ftpj Tlio German people as yot aro not ftpj tstnrvlng, and they still havo provl- ftpff elo). . .n adeiiato quantities to sup- bS. port lire, whllo In tho case of furth- ftpj or decreases In available supplies H thero still l:i tho Institution of com- ftV pulsory "soup kitchens," tho most ftV economical mothod of making all H foodstuffs go as far as possible to bVj stand between Gormany and any for- V cod tcriuinat'lon to tho war through ftS an absolute lack of food. ftW Many agricultural experts bellovo H' that tho central emplros did us well ftV in both years as could bo expected H nnd that the populations of Germany H nnd Austria must reconcllo themsel- B ves to getting along during the com- H lng hnrveal year on no greater allow- K unco than In tho past. Tho prob- 1 lorn, as frankly discussed In agrlcul-m agrlcul-m tural circles and as outlined in a re- B cent circular of tho rrussian minis- M try of agriculture, Is not ono of inoro BV land for ciops, but ono of labor and B fertilizer to cultivate tho land al- K ready avallablo advantageously. H The decidedly short supply of la- B lior, even by working every avallablo H prisoner of war and tho Inhabitants H of occupied districts, la not enough B' for tho Intensive cultivation which H mado Germany a world leader In big Ba crop farming. H Taking all these factors Into con- H nlderatlon, It Is highly Improbable H that there will bo any incrcaso In H general crop production over 1 01 C H nnd 101 C. Weather condition? may Bfll ns In 19 1 n. produce a bumper potato H crop and a poor grain crop, or the rn- flj verso results ns In into, but tho gen- oral result probably will bo about tho tiuiio. So far the ppoplo of Gormany aro holding out well, though with n groat denl of grumbling In urban and Industrial legions, whero conditions condi-tions are v irnt. Tho Gorman people peo-ple aro still well disciplined and for tho present aro not apt to glvo way to pressuro and to abandon tho war, In which thry now feel they are standing stan-ding with their backs to tho wall with no alternative except to light out tho struggle for national oxlst-mce. oxlst-mce. 1 Tho government has had no trouble trou-ble of moment In keeping citizens to the mark and "food riots" reported from time to time In tho forolgn press aro either Inventions or exaggerated exag-gerated accounts or unimportant demonstrations. |