Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1920 — Winter of Starvation Now Facing People of Germany [ARTICLE]

Winter of Starvation Now Facing People of Germany

Germany faces a winter of starvation even worse than the black winter of IPI6-17. according to government atatistics. The decreased percentage of foodstuffs is thus rated: Potatoes, 12; cabbage, 14; beet fodder. 17; sugar beets. 31. The prewar hog supply was 27,000,000 and has been reduced to. 7.000,000. Officials are pessimistic that the decreased . food production has weakened" German workers.