GERMAN FOOD SUPPLIES.
[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—It may possibly interest your readers to hear the experience of an English officer who led his regiment into Cologne. He writes :—
" In all the houses which we have been in the people have been only too anxious to oblige—at any rate, they are wise enough to know that it is to their advantage to do so. In the country dis- tricts there are few signs of starvation—apparently any amount of cattle and vegetables—but coming into these more populous districts one realizes how the war has hit the Hun. The well-to-do classes are' all right, well clothed and apparently sufficiently fed, but the poorer classes, and especially the poorer children, show under-feeding only too clearly. The children are really pathetic— drawn, anaemic, thin, little faces and bodies and clothes miserable. Of course there are many exceptions, but during these last two days I have seen more ill-fed children than I ever remember before. Goodness knows I do not feel sorry for the better-class Hun, who deserves all the punishment he can get, but seeing the poor children cannot but soften one's feelings."
It is well that the people should know that the better-class Germans have been taking very good care of themselves, but at the expense of the children.—I am, Sir, Lc., M.
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