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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 2, 1939

TRUTH ABOUT. FOOD RATIONS IN GERMANY

(Continued from Page 10) other plant olls, and pork fat.

Included in this ration are 112.50 grammes (rather more than a quar- | ter of a pound) of butler, which is, however, of exceedingly boor quali- ty. Foreign diplomats, journalists and other residents in Germany dur- ing the last year or two habitually | imported their own butter from Den- mark or Holland to avoid both the shortage and the quality of German butter.

ONE EGG A WEEK

In order to supplment the supplies of fats available for human con- sumption, the Nazi authorities made extensive experiments in the Verede- Jung, or ultra-refinement, of com- mercial fats to make them fit for food. So great are the demands of modern mechanised transport and munitions manufacture, however, that the process has, if anything. been reversed, and food fats are be- ing sacrificed to produce grease and

oil.

Besides

home-produced butter. Nazi supplies of oils and fats are de- rived chiefly from the following

sources.

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meal and sago, as well as coffee sub- stitute, are dealt with under thy special heading of "Naehrmittel," "means of nourishment" as distinct from food. Only small amounts of the cereal products are allowed by adult,standards, though the quanti- ties are perfectly adequate for child- ren, who also receive milk,

The "coffee substitute" is a bitter and somewhat nauseating beverage, manufactured variously from acorns, roasted barley, chicory and various prepared hedgerow products. Tea and cocon are not on the normal ration card and are available only "on oc- casion," which presumably when they have been seized as con- traband by the German navy or have reached the Reich in small quantities via the Balkans.

means

Potatoes, a staple food product in Germany, are not rationed and are available this year in ample quantl- ty,

Should the war last several years, however, the possibility of a bad potato harvest cannot be exclud- ed.

Of considerable significance In this context are the ravages of the Colorado beetle, which have increas- ed annually in Germany during the past five years. The beetle, coming into Germany from France and Bel- gium, has now been reported in dis- fricts as far east as Dresden and Linz, South-Austria, and many thousands of tons

1. Whale oil imports from Norway, supplemented by German whal- ing expeditions.

2. Soya bean and other plant oils

from Manchukuo and East Europe.

3. Synthetic fat from coal. 4. Palm and other tropical

ed oils.

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of potatoes are being destroyed an- nually, despite the use of chemical import-sprays and armies of "anti-beetle workers." The Kaiser Wilhelm In- stitute has been engaged for many months in trying to evolve a beetle- proof potato.

Many of these sources have been seriously interfered with by the Bri- tish blockade, as have many of the sources from which Germany obtain- ed petroleum and mineral nil pro- ducts.

What, then, are the results of Ger- man rationing? The population is certainly not starving. The effect of severe rationing of the German type first becomes apparent after a con- siderable period of months.

It was the lack of adequate fats which particularly struck a neutral medical expert who recently left Germany. From a scientific point of HOW THE GERMAN LIVES view, he told me, the Nazi ration card It is difficult for English people, might be said to be adequate in pro- even for those who will remember tein but lacking in calories. The vividly the privations of the last low quantity of meat allowed, with

war, to imagine what it means to ob- the consequent drop in albumen, istain small quantities of practically not compensated by a good supply of eggs.

Eggs are issued at the rate of one

every necessary commodity by queu- ing with ration cards; to have no milk; to obtain a stick of "standard

4 week-if available--in exchange | Government shaving soap" once

for the now almost proverbial “Ab- schnitt L 48" of the ration card.

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every four months; to obtain synthe- tic underwear, hats, coats and boots on ration cards-provided that one can prove that the last ones are worn out-to drink unsweetened coffee made from acorns.

Milk, the third main source of al- bumen, is available only in minute quantities and skimmed, for adults in normal occupations; fish, which also contains much albumen, is not None of these things in itself is very extensively eaten in Germany. vital. Continued pressure of this Workers in heavy industries, who | nature, however, over a period of are subject to great physical exer- time, is calculated to have an adverse tion, are entitled to considerably in- | effect upon Nazi morale, and is like- * creased rations of all the foodstuffs | ly, indirectly, to reduce the produc- mentioned here, except sugar andtion power of Germany.

jam. Children's rations

are con-

siderably less than normal adult ra-

tions in some categories.

POTATOES NOT RATIONED

Such foodstuffs as rice, porridge

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