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UNCENSORED STORIES OF THE FIGHT FOR DAILY BREAD,
With her Prem and Partinmens stifled, har police ready to ponies as the first protest, her consois putting our own of shume in severity, Germany of today muar needs be a ferrs incogaits to the pations that invest her.
a letter from his loved ones at home falling bins that they know nel whern tol turn for their daily bread. Bus, such luments, that bear, on them by their very erimlity the stamp of trich, are frequent in these pathetic messages to German soldiers.
and in the evening mounted troops layered than If the police had rentured out they would have been Lynched There is an unparalleled “exuitement hers, and also at Dortmurid orit Cologna and the surrounding distrius,
Konlynberg, May 4.......
"Thera`is oothing more to eat A Konigsbery you can get neither butter, for meal, not bread, nor four por anything.
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CILY FOR FOOD.
The following letter, dated May 14 last, from Leipzig, was found upea à German, airman captured on June 1:-
Last Saturday evening there were serious riots, and the propla did much execution At Lindens Plagnitz, Bectoh and Kleinschacher. In the Frankfurterstrasse they broke the windows of three shops and ranacked thers. They assembled in thousands shouting and yelling Two hundred police, mounted and on foot, found themselves helples. The crowd seized the brides of the horses and prevented them from moving. At Bentech
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Linden (Hanover)
H
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I can't continue this life my longer I can't keep up this fight for daily. bread.
The same month a Barliner writers
There is no more bulter, sugar, coffee, Port has completely disappeared. for some time, and potatoes, now the staple food of the working classes, are becoming delikatemia, and the price is vising in a'colossal manner, or s Another Berliner discourses dolefully on the prohibitin price of the Pagetwurst and the sausage genus generally
Saveloga se (be writes, as tough ta dry bread, for there is no grease to put in them, and they cost 4 marks Gu (4. Bd.) a pound. In the minced liver sausage there is nothing but catmeal and bredderumbs, and it won's keep uore than a day.
You are locbiddles to make any other Port of sarsage. What we used to call Thuring or butchers' sausage consist of gristle.
now
comes from a man of thought and sub- stance, a banket-officer on leave, writing to a comrade at the front on Apd? 26
For eight days past there has been. for instance, se meat at K; the municipality supplies the needy with bad meat which no man can eat. The doctors have already reported on the manifestly inadequate food amiable for the civil population of Germany,
The only people satisfied are the makers of munitions who are making their millions. Everybody else groups, and complains.
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After vivid description of the acutes now familiar to our readers of anxious | Mr 8. 1. Betting Dr. A. T. Kroderer Frava besieging all day shops which have Miss . J. Bonzago Mr.K. Larssen managed to get a supply of butter the M G. H. Bowday Mr & Mrs G Lauri writer says milk cards are granted only Capt. R. Branch Mr. S. Longfield * to those who have young childrea.... Mr&Mrs H.Bridges Major D. Macdonald Tallow which they used to throw at Mrs D. Buahanan Mr J. R. Mackinnon
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Mr&Mrs Coleman fr J. Matthiased pound, and anything else which can be Miss R. Coleman Mr D. Mc. Murray- Henght is horribly, dear and exists for Mr H AR Conant Mr RK Mehta the rich only. At the marginine depot Mr J.J. Connell Mr & Mrs
Mentzer women take their stand at three in the Mrs Cornelinasen & Mr T. Merek
Mr P. A. Millet morning, always under the surveillance Courtney Mr W. F. Norris of the police. A herring which used tor J. W. Courtney, Mr. P. Fa cost id. is bd. now. You can make a
Mira C. S. Paget Mr R. L. Farker round of Berlin to get Alb, of sugar. We shall probably have cards for that
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Mr N. Croucher Mi F. E. Davis Capt. I. Dewar Mr.J. Dewar
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Mr. E. Douglas. Mr R. Rouss From Wilhelmustahl (Westphalia) cores Mr F.S. Douglass Mr. R. R. Roxburgh the complaint that people are stealing Mr AW-Eastman Mr and Mrs.T. W.
Miss M. E. Duffy Mr J. H. Bouti chocciate shop was taken to dogs with which to make soup.
Early this morning they started afresh, breaking windows until about four feieck Eblins arrived with their lances and infantry with fixed Layonets, after the troops strived, but he concludes ou letter suggests that regiment
The witter does not say what happened malade." In fact, there me to Mr & Mrs J. Fisher Me, Spiers,
a plethora of sarmalade in Germany, and on pathetic note. The potato allorance threatened to mutiny becarise zurmalade per week has just been cut down from. 7 to Sibu's head!
comprised their staple of nourishment.
We find that even Esscu, the Krupp stronghold is unable to escape the common lot. We shall soon be able to institute a Famine Committee," philosopher on April 10, for you want.
** It is terrible,” said a letter-from-MFG. H. Eware, Dirs M. Blade sile in April to have nothing to eat. Mr P. J. Falconer Capt. J. Gaith but slices of bread whitevampote and Yewkes Me V. Sorby
MAC Finlays Mr. B. Scrouse
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There is abundant evidence of these
food riots which are never mentioned in the German Press. Another Leipzig citizen wrote just before Christmas
the workers.
hunger.
wrote a
In the Reichstag and in the papers at anything for your money." A they want to throw dust in the eyes of Dusseldorfer vota next day If the Well-to-do people can war lasta much longer we shall die öf carry on, but the working class is dying of hunger. No longer can we get maat, nor milk, nor butta, nor fat. We have only bad potato bread and not | Enough of that
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