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Show gloomy view of food tion No Hope of Increasing Rations Wholesale Complaints Made of Food Quality. AMSTERDAM. March 31. (Correspondence (Corre-spondence of The Associated Press ) A gloomy view of the food situation situa-tion in Germany was outlined by Dr. Von Bretterlrh, the Bavarian minister of ihe interior, in a forecast Whlehl has appeared in the Berlin newspapers. The public was told that "not only is there no chance of the potato ration being increased, but we must think ourselves lucky if it is maintained at it.- present level. The Bavarian minister min-ister said he hoped the bread ration might not have to be reduced and that the, meat ration may be kept at its present height, but there was little confidence in the tone of this assertion. asser-tion. Special preparations of cereals, on which many hopes were based a few weeks ago were not yet on the market mar-ket in any considerable quantities, and the public must wait for a dally ration ra-tion of half a teacupful. Wholesale Complaints Made. Wholesale complaints of the quality qual-ity of food being supplied at the pub-lie pub-lie kitchens throughout Germany appear ap-pear in the newspapers. The director of public kitchens, in reply to these attacks, issued the following statement state-ment : With the continuance of the war, the -quality of the materials we re-ceive re-ceive becomes ever poorer, and the choice more limited. We are compelled com-pelled to take what is offered to us or go withouL omplaints of defective defec-tive quality are simply ignored, and if we insist upon receiving a regular supply we run me risk of being entirely en-tirely cut off. The fat quota allotted to us grows ever smaller, 'spices are now scarcely obtainable, and the substitute sub-stitute spices have a had flavor. The vegetable supply is now limited to kohlrabi and turnips A pessimistic article on the potato situation by a member of the Prussian Prus-sian house of deputies, says that the acreage under potatoes has decreased DJ on-e-fiith as compared with the peacetime figure -'Not only It lh acreage less." he says, "but the demand de-mand is greater, and a crop double that of peacetime would not fulh suffice." |