BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS TO KEEP AT SEA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 186, 6 August 1914, Page 5

BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS TO KEEP AT SEA.

MAINTAINING THE FOOD SUPPLIES. HOW THE OVERSEAS DOMINIONS COULD HELP. LONDON, August 5. Mr. Lloyd George announces that the Government has adopted a war risk scheme. A sub-committee of Imperial defence, to encourage ships to keep at sea and to preserve the food supply operates to-morrow. The council of the Incorporated Association of London and'lrish Millers endorses the Government's statement that there are ample supplies of grain. Tbey state there is no occasion to pay panic rates in the immediate future. It is generally believed that there is less danger of a dearth of food supplies in Britain than of artificial inflation of prices through the public's unreasonable buying and the middleman's greed. Mr. If. Page Croft, M.P.. in a. letter to the "Morning Post," suggests that the overseas Dominions could save millions from distress by prohibiting the export of foodstuffs outside the Empire, and supplying their British kinsmen at a good but not excessive profit. Such a helpful arrangement would be worth many divisions of troops, -