The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Provisioning of northern Bohemia by Germany

PROVISIONING OF NORTHERN BOHEMIA BY GERMANY

 

From the Prague Venkov, May 26, 1918.

 

Wenzel Titta, president of the German National Council of Bohemia, had promised to get food for the Germans of Bohemia from the German Empire. So he proceeded to the proper quarters in Germany to get the promised assistance. Now Mr. Titta boasts in the papers about the success of his intervention and calls upon German towns to send their applications for a share of food contributed by Germany. His own report states that what he got from Germany were soup cubes, dry vegetables and sauerkraut.

It is well known that quite a number of fakers supply the consumers with all the soup cubes that anybody can want, so what is the use of going to the fakers of Germany.

The dry vegetables furnished by Germany, are really, as we are informed, dried turnips that had been for more than two years lying despised in various German storehouses without finding a buyer, because it is unfit even for feed. Now Mr. Titta succeeded in buying it for his German countrymen at 45 pfennigs a kilogram. We wish our German friends good appetite for this dessert, a worthy crown of their political success.

The other foodstuff secured by Titta is sauerkraut. Everybody knows that Austria and Bohemia have more of it than they can use and that stores are overflowing with it. Apparently there is a surplus of it in Germany and there is danger that the sauerkraut will spoil. So Mr. Titta’s friends in Germany gave him the sauerkraut to get rid of him. Whether Mr. Titta himself will get rid of it is an other question. Our German countrymen, it seems, did a fine piece of business.

(The rest, about 12 lines, confiscated.)