FOOD AND COAL FAMINE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 189, 11 August 1919, Page 5

FOOD AND COAL FAMINE.

DANGERS FACING EUROPE. WORKERS MUST AVERT THEM. AMERICA'S LIMITED HELP. LONDON, August 10. _Ir. H. C. Hoover, United States Food Administrator, states that the whole world is fined with the gravest danger of food shortage. The workers must save humanity. Eight hours is the maximum period in which manual workers can do efficient work, but they must really work full time. It is impossible for America to save Europe from a coal iamine. America can produce (500,000,000 tons of coal annually, but she cannot transport, more than" 1.0(10,000 tons of merchandise, all told, a month, whereas •20,000,0(10 tons of fuel alone is required monthly to save Europe. The output of coal in Great Britain for the week ending July '27 was •2,500,000 tons, a reduction of nearly 50 per cent compare- with the average for the weeks preceding -July 16. Eighty thousand Poles will shortly be employed in the mines in the liberated regions of France. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.J BACON CONTROL RESUMED. (Received 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 10. The Food Ministry has resumed control of bacon, hams, and" lard. It has requisitioned stocks of import- and fixed the maximum wholesale and retail prices.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)