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Title: The Iron Ration
Three Years in Warring Central Europe
Author: George Abel Schreiner
Release Date: August 30, 2012 [eBook #40628]
Language: English
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The IRON RATION
GEORGE ABEL SCHREINER
THE IRON RATION
Photograph from Henry Ruschin
AUSTRIAN SOLDIER IN CARPATHIANS GIVING HUNGRY YOUNGSTER SOMETHING TO EAT
Moved by the misery of the civilian population the soldiers will often share their rations with them. An Austrian soldier in this case shares his food with a boy in a small town in the Carpathian Mountains, Hungary.
THE IRON RATION
Three Years in
Warring Central Europe
BY
Warring Central Europe
BY
GEORGE ABEL SCHREINER
ILLUSTRATED
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Iron Ration
Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published February, 1918
Copyright, 1918, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published February, 1918
to my friend
Dr. Jerome Stonborough
man—scholar—philanthropist
Dr. Jerome Stonborough
man—scholar—philanthropist
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| I | WAR HITS THE LARDER OF GERMANY | 1 |
| II | WHEN LORD MARS HAD RULED THREE MONTHS | 22 |
| III | THE MIGHTY WAR PURVEYOR | 34 |
| IV | FAMINE COMES TO STAY | 56 |
| V | THE FOOD SHARK AND HIS WAYS | 70 |
| VI | THE HOARDERS | 93 |
| VII | IN THE HUMAN SHAMBLES | 115 |
| VIII | PATRIOTISM AND A CRAVING STOMACH | 131 |
| IX | SUB-SUBSTITUTING THE SUBSTITUTE | 144 |
| X | THE CRUMBS | 161 |
| XI | MOBILIZING THE PENNIES | 173 |
| XII | SHORTAGE SUPREME | 195 |
| XIII | "GIVE US BREAD!" | 213 |
| XIV | SUBSISTING AT THE PUBLIC CRIB | 245 |
| XV | THE WEAR AND TEAR OF WAR | 265 |
| XVI | THE ARMY TILLS | 275 |
| XVII | WOMAN AND LABOR IN WAR | 293 |