Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — SAWDUST IN GERMAN BREAD [ARTICLE]

SAWDUST IN GERMAN BREAD

Analysis Shows That About TwoThirds Is From a Wood Product. Rome. —That German bread is mainly sawdust is now proved by a military attache of the Swiss legation in Berlin, w’ho returned to Rome Til with dysentery. He broughfa loaf of German bread to see if it was responsible for his bad health. Berne experts just analyzed the loaf and found it contains corn, 12 per cent, barley, 22 per cent and the remaining G 6 per cent was wood sawdust. Bread tickets also are in force in Switzerland. The dally allowance Is

250 grammes, about nine ounces. Sugar tickets soon will be issued, with monthly allowance fixed at 18 ounces, and rice nine ounces. Butter is to be rationed too, the amount differing with districts, but nowhere to exceed three ounces a month. With the institution of rations in Switzerland hundreds of Germah and. Austrian visitors left for home. One reason was they can no longer send home food by parcel post, and the other, more potent, is that under the Swiss regulations food tickets are only issued after a thorough inquiry about the visitors’ nationality and business. A large inflow of people, Intent on spying, thus is also stopped.