Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1916-05-26 | Page 2 | Food Scarcity in Germany

FOOD SCARCITY IN GERMANY. German Newspaper Admits Shortage of Food Supply, But is Optimistic. Berlin. "The adequate nourishment nourish-ment of our population Is fully assured assur-ed and will not be rendered doubtful by any blockade regulations of enemy states, no matter how unscrupulous they may be and no matter how long the war may last," says the semiofficial semioffi-cial North German Gazette in an announcement an-nouncement of the creation of a food dictatorship with sweeping powers. However, the short harvest of 1915, together with reduced imports, have resulted in a food scarcity in some direction di-rection which ma-kes itself acutely felt, and efforts to better conditions have been hindered by the fact that each federal state has been able to make independent regulations. This will now be corrected by a centralisation centrali-sation of power."