LIVE SIMPLY.
ORDER IN BRITAIN. Food Ships Carrying War Supplies. BiitUta Official Wireless. <R<*d. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Dec. 13. The British public is going to live more simply in the future, said Lord AY oolton, Minister of Food, speaking at the inauguration of a ninepenny lunch to-day. lord Woolton added that food was a munition of war, and, in their deliberate effort to starve Britain, the Germans were using the U-boat campaign in all its force, but, he said, "you are still not starved out."
Speaking on the shipping problem. Lord Woolton said some ships were being taken off bringing food to Britain and used to take munitions and supplies ta the men in the Middle East. Then* lighting men were now going to some extent without food in order that they could have abundance in Britaia, and, therefore, he told his colleagues in the Government that they would deliberately and willingly, as a population, have a little less.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 297, 14 December 1940, Page 9
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