The Polish children are coming for lunch. German soldiers with Polish children in Lomza, Polish Russia, June, 1915. The photo postcard from Adolf Herzell was sent July 7, 1915. Herzell wrote that 'the Polish children are coming for lunch.' Translation courtesy of Thomas Faust, ebay's Urfaust.
Div. St. Qu. Dembg Gouv. Lomza June 1915.Reverse:... the Polish children are coming for lunch ...Translation courtesy of Thomas Faust, ebay's Urfaust.
"Friday, September 29, 1916.The economic situation has become much worse in the last few weeks. The increased cost of living is causing hardship all round. The price of the most elementary necessaries is three times what it was at the beginning of the war; in the case of wood and eggs it is four times, and in that of butter and soap five times. The main causes of this situation are unfortunately as fundamental as obvious—the closing of foreign markets, congestion on the railways and confusion and dishonesty in the public services.What will it be in few weeks time when we have to cope with the rigours of winter and the tortures of the cold, which are even more cruel than those of hunger?"
September 29, 1916 entry from the diary of Maurice Paléologue, French Ambassador to Russia. Imperial Russia's last great offensive had ground to an end, but casualties continued to climb. The hope that Romania's entry into the war would turn the tide was proving to be unfounded.
An Ambassador's Memoirs Vol. III by Maurice Paléologue, page 44, publisher: George H. Doran Company
1916-09-29, 1916, September, food, inflation
