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THE BERLINERS ARE DIGGING TO EAT

It's Spring in Germany and the Borliners are digging again" ---but now they are digging for, dear life, os we once "Dug for Victory" On shattered walls these words exhort them: "Flowers won't feed your family. Plant vegetables in every inch."

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An unexpectedly Kay and Finally, there is a shortage of It may be that raw materials springlike Berlin, greeted molabour. The Russians have still are running short, and the Rus. after three months away. not relonged any of their pri- alans have decided to take away The cherries ́and almondssoners of war, except the medi- all factories which cannot be flower everywhere, and in the cally unfit,

locally supplied, rather than houses vases of lilne and double Agriculturally, in spite of all supply the raw materials and pink prunus.

Russian attempts at propag- then remove the finished pro- But on the skeleton walls in anda, the picture is bleak. ducts is reparations. the streets are placards: "Flow- Last year they exacted vory

feed British taxpayers will scarcely ers won't your family | high delivery rates of the har- relish the further warning that, Plant vegetables in every inch." vest, so that they were "gen-

The Arst Germans I went to failing improvement in the cri-

aea told me that their meat t tical

Ruhr coal situation, they rations were some weeks in will have to bear the burden of arrears, with potato supplies ex [“reparations" for Germany. In hausted and the bread ration

his Budget Statement in April, reduced.

By CHRISTOPHER

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Russians Stift "Unpredictable"

The treasures of the Dresden

Art Gallery have left for Russia. Mme, Zhukov's trous- senu of dresses has been com- pleted by the Modesalon Der- linger, in the British sector, and Zhukov has gone back to Mos-

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the Chancellor of the Exchequer All the sumo, they sny, they

The Gormans find Sokholov- revealed that the Central, Office are better off than the area just

ski much more "understanding" outside the city. That has

of their problems. But the for Civil Administration was cost been stripped bare by the Ber-erously giving quantities back Russian remains unpredictable. ing Britain £80 million a year.lin black market,

The owner ("manager" to the "I am sure," he added, "that the

Rations throughout the Rus- They also make much play | Russians) of the Babylon British taxpayer cannot and will sian Zone. are short, their ar- with statistics about the Land Theatre in the Alexander-platz not much longer be expected to rival uncertain and irregular. Reform. The latter show that was told by his Russian censor go en paying at this scale whar] It all depends on the whim of there were only 5,000 tractors that his programme was not are virtually reparations to Ger- the local commandant, who may, to be shared between 320,000 "anti-Fascist" enough. many." The necessity of saving as one German put it, give you peasants who got land under the He was ordered to produca

sweets instead of your meat reform; and Mecklenburg from complete collapse a Reichration one week and the next still waiting for the first sack of the Nazi bosses It was not Is a certain play which made fun whose industries are still largely month nothing at all.

of seed potatoes of the "gift" a very good play, and he had paralysed places a burden on the Sucked Dry By Black Market of 50,000 promised to it for this difficulty finding a cast, food, manpower, and industrial Round Berlin all these extra year's crop,

He managed it, though, and resources of the Western Allies sources have been sucked dry Industrially things are not after some rehearsals applied to which they are beginning to find by the black market, for which much better. After Д period the censor for permission intolerable. A high official of the the Germans, of course, blame when it seemed that the Rus- perform it on a day in March.

finished stripping War Department in Washington the Russians, but which is cer- sians had

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By CHARLES REID

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tinent, instead of draining away no one can draw more than one marks from their neighbours' meagre resour-payment of 300

what he had in the bank a year, Recently, the four occupying ago: and the only people who can afford to pay the prices Powers released the details oi

are the black marketeers them- the economic plan they had drawn selves. up for the reconstruction of Ger- The area round Berlin is suf- man industry, designed to enable fering from hunger; the rest of the German people to provide the zone is better off than most for their own wants at a low people feared it would be after

On my desk les a volume in sunshine, tempest, "a alght earth- standard of living. The coud- the winter. The general mood

binding with a quake, with three motions," the try's war potential was to be optimiste in the spring sun- frayed leather

little brass clasp which gives it season's first blossoms. straw- by the

She But those who know what is semi-devotional look. The title berries, cherries. completely destroyed,

dutifully eliasination of war industries and really going on foresee an even plete Pocket Book for the Year Lord Sandwich, the Dake of Man- Page is headed The Ladies' Cou! notes the letters she has written. by severe limitations of capacity worse winter next year. For of Our Lord 1767. in industries basic to armament..mber of reasons this harvest No progress can be made with seems likely to be even less pro- the plan, however, because o:uctive than the last.

Germans all blame the Com- France's continued insistence that the future control of the Ruhrist Land Reform. This has, indeed, split up into uneconomic and Rhineland must be settled small units land which is diffi- before a central Administration is cult to farm needing expensive set up in Germany. The French machinery and large-scale werk Cabinet has unanimously decided ing.

shine,

chester, the Duke of Grafton, are Originally it was owned by among her correspondents:

St.

and inter John, wife widow of the 11th Lord St, Johi

Lady"

There are dinners and mas-

of Bletso, who made entries in the urades. She has "company at carda Suddenly sorrow comes diary section concerning masque-stalking. "My Lord taken very rades, routs, fireworks and other ill.. " "My Lord, exceeding diversions of the period. The lie il from a descendant of Lady St hour after eleven at night." has come,

to the Daily Sketch poor dear Lord died at half an John, Lieut.-Col. the Hon Rowland

may

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printed

Seven months later the diary St. John, of Richmond Surrey, has this note: "My inte beloved against any modification of French The social Democrats them who, in view of recent letters in Lord wou'd this' Day have been policy, which the Foreign Minis-selves, who originally supported our correspondence feature, draws 42."

large special attention to the section The manuscript diary is follow- ker has described as hot annexa- the break-up of the tion, but "permanoat Allied occu- estates, have now reported that devoted to recipes for both kitchen ed by a chatter of miscellaneous

print. pation of this jumping-off place the effect for the next three and medicine chest.

You add a pint of red

The signs of the zodiac Are for invasion." The deadlock has years will be definitely harmful.

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What reading could be more ornament." An abstract in offer- feel deep concern over the im- the zone.

wistful in this lenten post-war ed, "be wa

way of caution to the minent economic danger to Saxony and Thuringla, which world? Yot 1767 had its aches ladies, of various Acts of Parlia

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for thic There is a succulent pago on the re- was paid in America

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cipients Bay are not fit for Receipt for the Rheumatisms: described Germany as "the num- slaughtering, let alone for

Take of garlick two cloves, of sauce of Mr. Quin's," compounded Ammoniao one dracht: as follows: ber one problem in French history breeding or for hard field work.

blond them by bruising them

Tako 1 pint of walnut pickle, past, present, and future,' Many of the beasts

together; make them into an 1 pint of mushroom catchup. **12 cloves of garlick bruised, 20 adding that "a guarantee against reach the north, as the trans-

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anchapjes bruteed well, 2 oz. of water, and swallow them, onc at night and one in the morn

horse radish scraped, a

littin requirement of French foreign near Berlin, and the black mar

ing. Drink while taking this

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Let them atand policy." Opinions differ only as keteers are on the look-out for

recipe them.

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A Popular Song Hit: questions the Allies must cotillery.

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Happy's that contented creature Who The Filthistan Trio

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As these stocks have also Exquisite Sir

And consults the voice of natura iman economy in such a way that been tapped by the Germans for Ho, yes, be sure to help us When of roving fancy eas'd.

the may contribute to the general food, and the corn-seed stocks three what are of receiving day Yes, this was one of the smash prosperity of Europe, and not with them, the seed situation by day letters of abusal. One hits of London 180 years ago. I

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