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Show GERMAN CITIES FIGHTJIEAU Municipalities Claim Right to Buy Their Own Food and Household Articles. TROUBLE AT HANOVER City Unable to Procure Butter, Sausage and Hams Rubber Smuggled Across Border. The Hague, July 7, via" London, 10:40 a. m. Information reaches The Hague that for several weeks there has been continuous friction between the authorities of various large German Ger-man cities and the Central Purchasing Bureau. The. municipalities claim the right to buy their own food and household house-hold articles without asking permission permis-sion of the Central Bureau. There was an outburst last week in the Hanover city council, several members mem-bers of which accused the Central Bureau of boycotting the city which was unable to procure butter, sausage and hams, notwithstanding the fact tViaf enmo Tk1aron In thc vlnlnitv WPTO sufficiently supplied. It was argued that it was physically impossible for one bureau to control all municipalities. municipali-ties. Cologne, Dresden, Chemnitz and other oth-er cities already are purchasing supplies sup-plies Independently having representatives represen-tatives in Holland for that purpose. As potatoes are secure In Germany while the supply of rye is scarce, Adolph Badaco, head of tho department depart-ment of food regulation, has decided it will not be necessary to mix potato pota-to meal in baking bread. Rubber Smuggled In. A census of tho rubber supply has revealed a large quantity in the frontier fron-tier districts which are supposed to have been smuggled into tho country. The Central Bureau has seized all this rubber, paying for it at tho rate of five marks a kilogram. The bureau for the protection of German merchantile credits abroad had Issued lists of certified German claims on foreign debtors and admitted admit-ted foreign claims on German firms for the purpose of facilitating settlements settle-ments of balances. These lists are free to approved neutral firms. |