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Show SWEEPING FOOD SUPPLY ROLES Berlin, Jan 26, by wireless to London, Lon-don, 9.45 a. in. The Federal council has put into effect sweeping regula tions for the conservation of the food supply, as follows: Ail stocks of corn, wheat and flour arc ordered seized by February' 1. All business transactions in these commodities are forbidden from January Jan-uary 2C. All municipalities are charged with the duty of setting .aside suitable supplies sup-plies of preserved meat The owners of corn are ordered lo report their stocks immediately whereupon confiscation, at a flxod price will follow. A government distributing office for the regulation of consumption will be established, distribution being mad-' according to the number of inhabitants. inhabit-ants. Confiscation of Grain. The imperial Gazette today publishes publish-es the following notice regarding the confiscation of groin: "There is no doubt that the measure meas-ure ordered taken cuts much deeper Into the ficonomic life of our people than all the other economic regula |