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WEATHER REPORT.
On the 7th at 12,90.-No returns from Jupaamo-etations. At all other stationa presore han skorene-d sightly, except aver Indo-China, whe est has decreased alightly.
A now anti-egclone fue formedjover Coind. The monsoon will froshon along the cast cosat of Chios and over the China Bea.
Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending at 10 am. today, 0:00 Inch. Total sinos 1st January, 78.81 Inches, against an average of 12.10 inchei.
The forcourt for the $4 hours ending at noon to-day in su followsz
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SouthCount rf China between (The same a
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DECEMBER STи. 1918.
GERMANY'S FOOD,
A NATION GROWING THINNER.
FATS AND OIL VITAL
[BYD. THOMAS CURTIN.]
to my knowledge go short very short MR. It is, in fact, a common joke to suggest that the soldiers hate coming back on leave to face the fatless cupboards of their homes.
Another place where there is no de- ficiency is the railway train, where for the benefit of travelling neutrals very decent meals at the old prices are always to be had. One train restaurant condue On my arrival in England I find that the first question asked me by everybody tor said to me, "Yes, you foreigners get is,What are the facts of the food situnit and we trainmen have to give up our own bread and butter tickets for your benefit."
tion in Germany?"
Another class that I believe does not suffer is the wealthy agriculturist, whose supplies come from his own farm. Not even the German minuteness of economi- cal combing out cun, for example, pre
farmer getting a litle extra of his veut own milk, egg, or butter or game.
The great food question is that in volved in what you call Dutch cheese what the Germans call Hollander of Eidam cheese. Up to the middle of August Dutch cheese (how I got to hate it) was plentiful. Sometimes it is still to be had in quantities-then again it Every ounce of suddenly disappears Dutch theese that is enten by the people of thean islands is so much less Dutch cheese for the Germaus. Every bar of chocolate that is kept out of Germany helps to shorten the war.
CHURCHILL'S PART IN
THE WAR.
WARM EULOGY-
Lord Kothermere, in an articlo in tho Sunday Pictorial, warmly defends Ms. Churchill against recent attacks. He says the remarks of the majority of the unsparing criticisms against him centre round the Dardanciles. As the matter is the subject of a commission's inquiry the public must await the commission's report, when it may form its own con-
clusions.
Lord Rotheruere eulogises Mr. Chur- chill's foresight and courage in selecting Admiral Jellicos and Admiral Beatty nut of the ordinary way. Both the appoint- ments have been amply justified by events. He also defends his other selections, including Rear-Admiral Oliver, chief of the Admiralty War Staff, Vice-Admiral Bacon, aud Vice-Admiral Tyrwhitt. It is gnificant that these men, long after Mr. charging the duties be allotted to them. Churchill's resignation, are still dis-
Early in 1012, Mr. Churchill warned the Admiralty of the future role of the Zeppelins, and urged the construction of similar aircraft scoits. If his views were not carried into full effect the responsibility, no doubt, rests in a degree with Mr. Churchill, but also, perhaps, in a greater degree with the naval experts, who were divided or who held lukewar opinions, and with the Ministers, who were ignorant or sceptical of the import- aned of aerial warfare.
The facts are that the whole of Germany and Austria-Hungary are in a condition that is not yet serious, but is already extremely uncomfortable. I have weighed that phrase carefully in my mind, and believe, as I shall endeavour to show, that it trathfully expresses the state of affairs. This statement of mine will be resented by the myriad agents of the Gorman Press Bureau in Germany and all over the world.. Every statement, indeed, that I make which is distasteful to the German Government will I am very sure, arouse anger and abuse When that daring young Anglo-Dutch journalist, Mr. Luopuit, penetrated to Turkey and achieved a journalistic coup of the first magnitude by dining in the same room as the Kaiser at the Nish banquet, the tactics of the German Government in the matter were simple. At one time the Germans were endeav Orders were issued that no mention of the ouring to stir up American sympathy by matter was to be made in the German the statement that German infants were papers at all. When, however, rumours deprived of milk, but in fact no German emanating from the Kaiser's personal child has suffered by the blockade. The entourage became so numerous as to milk regulations prescribe that it should
Mr. Churchill, he. continues. was necessitate some explanation of the laxity be first allotted to the young children. of the Kaiser's personal bodyguard, There is fresh milk to be had everywhere oppressed with the difficulty of obtaining
honey, and
convinced that the certain dismissals of Court officials took for the babies, and there is no dearth Hornet aeroplane had established place and at the same time-a short down. whatever of condensed milk. In the righe denial was issued by the Wold country villages I found no milk de superiority on land and sea; and deter- nined to concentrate his stinted resources Agency. In regard to my serious state ficiency, and the substitution ofcoutainly thereon.. Mr. Churchill, in a ments as to the German food situation Ideased milk for fresh milk can hardly written communication early in 1915, ont- shall be met by denials. I have in doubt, ho considered a severe hardship in the lined the entire conception of the tanks of all my statements possibly of my very cities. The condensed milk, which is of existence. It is wel? that passports tell
German manufacture and comes also March ordered the construction of a con
to the Government, and by the end of tales, and that I have other proofs than from Holland and Denmark. is not, assiderable number, identical with those the German official stampinge of my a rule, of the richest quality. passport,
NOTHING IS MORE EMBARRASSING THAN
Of the food situation in Germany I am EXTREME THINNESS.
bound to say that until recently the whole It is the plump, well-developed man state of affairs has been exaggerated by who "cuts the melons" and has the fun portions of the Allied Preas. Beories of conversation with a German chemist of after a century of peace, we found every
starvation are the kind of thing that spreads rapidly. A few hundred angry women demanding butter after standing five or six hours in the rain or snow and breaking a few windows is an event easily magnified into a food riot.
socially.
Scrawny, skinny people are seldom popular We all admire fine figures. No dressmaker can hide a bony, skinny
form.
You ought to test the one guaranteed reliable treatment which has made good for years in England, which has takon America by storm and which hoa been awarded a gold medal and diploma of honor at Brussels, Belgium.
Nothing in history has ever approached the marvellous success of this new treat ment, which according to report, has made more thin folks plump than all the "tonics
and ineffective medicines for fifty years.
There's a reason. men and women assimilate what they eat. Thin, scrawny ones do not..
A CHRISTMAS BANQUET.
Germany as I know it, going back as a I will deal with the state of food in starting point to last Christmas Day, when at the house of hospitable people had a Christmas dinner of the lavish German kind, lasting nearly four hours, It consisted of soup, cary, and, in my honour as an American, türkey and cran-
well endowed with this world's goods,
all others concerned in it a grateful recognition in the records and in the minds of their countrymen.
Plump, well formed berry sauce, together with plum pudding short of loads had not heard of any being brought in from, the North Seal
This new discovery sims to supply the one thing the thin folks lack, that is the power to assimilate food.
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which they imagined, incorrectly, to be rfecessarily an American Christains dish. There was an abundance of dessert, marzipan, ornamental Baumkuchen. sweetmeats, Rhine wine champagne, liqueurs, and real coffee. It was a special occasion, of course, and I do not think that many German households will be able to afford anything like this plenty on Christmas Dny, 1916.
English and American people read of meatless and fatless days. It is not the absence of meat, but the absence of fat, that hurts, Butterless war bread and acorn coffee, now sweetened, not with agar, but with saccharine, form monotonous breakfast that in almost nauseating. Cooking without fat or grease of any kind is a task that taxes the cleverest "housewife.
Tbcae
There is fat in Germany the entry of which can be stopped. It consists of the olive or enttonseed oil in which Nor- wegian sardines are preserved. sardines are being stored all over the Empire" for the coming siege," as my American friends in Berlin call it. After the aardines have been eaten-glo by the way & rather fatiguing diet after 30 or 40 meals of them-the oil is used for frying, Unfortunately the oil imparts a favour The stoppage of the sardine and other imports would have a material effect upon the length of the war,
TICKET LARCÉNT.
some
now used on the Somme. It is difficult to A CHEMIST'S TESTIMONT.
exaggerate what was decomplished under his energetic Wgime in the early days Returning to the question of fat and of the war, It is to Mr. Churchill's grease us essentials of life, I had a long credit that at the outbreak of the wat more than German reputation. His con-ship, great and small, ready and at their versation summarized was as follows: war stations. That was a wonderful
think How long," he asked, do 11 18 sufficient to secure to Mr. Churchill and these English can hold out?
achievement of preparedness alone, and always the English, be it observed, never the French or Russians. I replied, as delicately as I could, that on previous occasions when the English had gone to war they had lasted a very long time. The conversation took place about three root crops such as turnips, carrots, and ary" he said. Which January?" I cant fact is that they are already eating weeks ago.
Can they last till Jamu plums, damsons, and apples. A signif replied. Next January." I suggested this year's jau in Berlin. When I lunch- hyphenates were of opinion that Eng and the inevitable sardines that most Americans other than theed at any rooms I had fah, cheese, bread
The war land, Australia, New Zealand, Canada. has enormously developed Germany's fish and the rest of them would last a great supplies from the Baltic, and from Hol- many Januarys. "But they are very land, until you, turdily, dealt with the
" he said. I aren't they
matter. All kinds of freak foods are told him that deficiency in England. He asked me to meat is sold here and there, and polar call upon him next day, when he repeat bear, the latter at 1s. 6d. a pound. There ed the questions. His view of the Ger is an abundance of food swimming about man situation was exactly as follows in the Baltic and the Germans are in- it is only one opinion, but it is a discreasing their supplies of fresh water tinguished opinion.
fish, which have always been carefully Our principal difficulties," he said, conserved. When I lunched at a restau- are three. The necessity for propping rant such as the Rheingold, I got hors up all those wretched Austrians with a
d'œuvres consisting of sardines, potato stiffening of our good Prussians and and tomato salad (without oil), vegetable Bavarians: the absence of the heavy soup, fish, meat (half a pound of meat Chilean nitrates essential to the pro-served only on production of meat ticket ductivity of our farms, and the terrible that is to say, the half-pound, which is fat proposition. Our nitrates extracted weighed with bone and fat and has to from the air served us very well this year, be extended over a period of seven days), because it was a damp year. It helped cheese and fruit. There is no lack what- us to produce beet, though not nearly as
ever of wines, spirita and even good as that obtained from South Ame: Scotch whisky of which later the supply rican nitrates. The beet is one of the at the Hotel Adlon is running out owing to the demands of German officers and most puzzling roots of all. Its saccharine properties cannot be told by appearance, travelling Americana, who are partial to but only by close chemical analysis. The it. Appearances are kept up at all the absence of our old imported fertilizers hotels visited by foreigners-partially by means a steady decrease in the produc patriotic endeavours on the part of hotel tion of sugar and a dozen other staples.
"The oil difficulty is almost insuper-keepers and partly by Government hints. able. You have doubtless seca the many
Needless to say there is much juggling thousands of acres sown with sunflowers
Our oil extraction from of the various meat and broad tickets. these has been unexpectedly successful, People living in apartment houses meet and poppies. but it is, of course, only a thimbleful regularly to exchange and rearrange compared with the demands of the muni them according to their taste. A curious tion makers and the populace. It is all form of crime has began in Germany very well for our public opinion manu the theft of these tickets for more facturers to repeat the phrase Wir with lodgers have Another article that is to be found in halten durch'We are holding out '), tickets than they are entitled to. The abundance everywhere is chocolate in its but as a chemist I should like to know depôts for the distribution of these various fortas. Recent blockade measures how we are going to do it. The longer tickets have been broken into. I mention have increased the price of cocoa in we hold out the worse for our economical these matters as showing the increasing A CURE THAT CURES. Berlin by some 40 per cent, but there are future. It is already obvious, from re food stringency,
I know, immense stores of chocolate and ports I have received, that the enemy is
So far as I am personally concerned There are men and women in every oncon in Germany. Unlike the Anglo establishing chemical works, dye tac-my health in no way suffered until com- locality who are being racked to death Saxons, the Germans are a strictly saving tores, sulphuric acid plants, and a hun paratively recently, when I began to lose with Rheumatism. Many of them have and far-seeing people. Every German died other industries, of which news is weight. I have lost some ten pounds in Our Foreign the last three months, and was so un- tried electricity, liniments. Turkish and household able to do it has supplies of coming from England. mineral baths, massage, etc, while others some sort or other laid in. On Septem- Office, our army and navy, and news- have been doctored until they have lok her 1st a food inventory was taken papers ought to pay a little more atten- oil that on arriving in Holland and est- accustomed to food cooked in butter ur all hope and patience. LITTLE'S
throughout the whole Empire by tion to the chemists. I am not the only ing this food I suffered from nausea, ORIENTAL BALM has, by its thousand house-to-house visitation, may case of one who has issued a warning as to our
which is only now passing away, of successful cures, demonstrated incorrect statement being punishable by ability to hold out, and I have more than whole German people is getting thinner, superiority over any known troviament for heavy fine
once suggested that if the English were to the advantage of some of them. the cure of Rheumatism. Through it
to pay us an indemnity, give us a lease
Laty dinner, which was being brought sufferers have abandoned their crutches,
of Antwerp, restore the colonics, with into fashion by English imitators before others have been cared after years ol
The hands of the Government in Gor- the Belgian Congo as a recompense for the war, has disappeared, and supper is We have yet to learn of s
lean many are strengthened by certain ele our expenses in Belgium, wo chould put a meal resembling that of midday. Ота single instance where
ments in the German character, one of a stop to a war of which I, for one, was. ORIENTAL BALM has not cured when which is the tendency of people to spy never in favour from the outset.
one or two occasions I received gifts of We a little sausage from friends in the coun given a fair trial.
Mr. H. E. Wood, Whitcreas St., Hereupon each other. Here is a case. Last German chemists had the world at our try. Gifts of food have taken the place of almost every other little present. ford, writers: For the past 5 years 1 Easter the customary baking of cakes a feet. We are no longer supreme."
It is only men of importance and wide Against this beginning of what is obvi have been laid up totally lame from time-honoured ceremony in Germany Rheumation, and suffered the most excru- April 1st to 20th. A certain good woman such as these which, from the German ground of a certain measure of gaiety in was forbidden all over Prasia from vision who talk to a foreigner on lines ously to be severe privation is a back- ciating pain; all medical aid was
101 LITTLE'S of whose husband was coming point of view, are generous and expan-Berlin, organized for the most part and availing
home from the trenches, thought that she give ORIENTAL BALM cared me.. com-
would welcome her soldier with one of pletely.'
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of two fresh eggs, coffee (made probably calls a mix-up" that will straighten Despite all these precautions it is of acorns, chicory, and hurat malt), itself out as we say, if all oleaginous commonly believed by the masses that the or, as I could not stand this mixture, and fat-containing products are kept ent big people the rich classes and the chocolate. A few weeks ago I had akim- of Germany.
In the opinion of thoughtful neutrals This med milk-latterly condensed milk; the aristocracy get all that they want belief is one of the many causes of German discontent among the masses.
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TYPICAL MEALS.
I have been asked several times during the last few days to describe one or two typical days' meals in Germany.
I give them as served by my landlady in a high-class suburb, equal to your
Households
The
having lost much of the lustre of a year ago. Théatres and music halls are wall attended. There is no lack of light. London's nocturnal darkness is only equal- led by Berlin's nightly brightness. Horse-racing is steadily maintained, for the purpose of keeping up appearances and gambling... There is an immense
equivalent of three small rolls of bread in Germany the kindest way of helping made of potatoe, rye, and white wheat to end the war would be narrowly to It is not white bread, but it is quite watch the neutral imports of off of all
of the German Government in which good The
there is no visible deficiency of food renders it limited butter allowance kinds. The effect will not be immediate.
necessary to oke out the bat The Germans are a nation of squirrels in
one 1 believe to be the German Army der ticket with jam, and to provide this the matter of storing up, and they have and the other the Navy, on active service jam the Government has commandeered i been prépering for a very trying winter, Be pe Soldiers in meerve and zeer pers
the lendstürmers (Continued at foot of next Column) Time