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Show FOOD PROBLEM GROWSjfflUS Resolutions Adopted in Germany Ger-many to Prevent Producers From Withholding Supplies. London. Jan 6. 5.50 a. m. A discussion dis-cussion of the food problem in the Berlin municipal council lb described in a dispatch to Reuters from Berlin by way of Amsterdam. At the end of the discussion two resolutions were adopted, the first introduced by the Socialists demanding uniform distribution distribu-tion of food in the towns and in the country and the. adoption of steps to prevent producers from withholding supplies in order lo increase theiv profits. The second resolution was offered of-fered by the Liberals and condemned I the existing restrictions on the buying I of supplies by towns Herr Wuerm. a Socialist, attacked j Adolph von Batocki, president of the food regulation board, whose latest circular he described as a complete confession of the impotence of the state before the farmer. He added that even Field Marshal von Hindcn-burg's Hindcn-burg's appeal to the producers had been useless. Burgomaster Wermuth spoke pessimistically of Berlin's supplies sup-plies and said that the official distribution dis-tribution officers had failed to regulate regu-late satisfactorily the disbursement of butter and milk. He said tbat sunc plies continually decline and had become be-come alarmingly low and that the potato po-tato situation would be unsatisfactory until February 15. Worst of all, the burgomaster said, were the fluctuations fluctua-tions in tho various systems, which prevented communities from co-operating successfully. |